<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>How to migrate users and groups from one machine to other machine?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problem is with uid:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have RHES 3.0 ES.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a machine with RH, then I want migrate to other machine, only change of machine.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>if I copy /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and /etc/group to new machine all work OK.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>My users id database begin in 500 and ends in 600. but it is 500,501,502,...549,559,560,...570,579,...,600</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I create a new user with useradd tool it uses 500,501 id. i.e. it uses already users id.?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>How to fix it?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>How to do to useradd never uses automatic uids that there exists ?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>fb.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=156291316-24042004><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV></BODY></HTML>