Re: Transfering user acount/E-mail Account to new box

["Toto Gamez" <egamez bonheur com ph>]

Thanks guys,

----- Original Message -----

From: Bob McClure Jr

To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux

Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:21 AM

Subject: Re: Transfering user acount/E-mail Account to new box

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:54:15AM +0800, Toto Gamez wrote:
> Hi
> I want to tranfer all user/email account from RH72 box to a newly installed RHFC box, what files and directories do I have to backup and tranfer so that I will not create the same account to my new box and creating again their password
>
> TIA

Off the top of my head (not much up there :-);

/home/
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and /etc/group (uids/gids >= 500 only)
/var/spool/mail/

This assumes you have no Samba password files.

What did I miss?

Cheers,
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