[Q] migrate user ID/password to other server

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 13:57, mcclnx mcc wrote:
> We have several Redhat AS 2.1 and 3.0 servers.  Can
> anyone tell me how to move user ID/password from one
> server to another one?
>
> Thnaks.

/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group are the files that you need. "Normal" 
user that you create usually have user id >= 500. So you may only want to 
grep user id >= 500 rather than moving the whole files, which contains other 
user that was created by the system (ie. apache, nobody, ...)


RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN

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