Re: How do I move an account... A few more details

[Don <fedora greatoasis com>]

Peter and David,
Thanks for the info.  There are a few more things:

How do I move there directories and preserve their owner ship?  I have 
about 30 accounts on another machine.

This info is really appreciated
Don


At 07:43 PM 12/28/2004, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 December 2004 22:33, David Limon Romero wrote:
> > El Mar 28 Dic 2004 7:33 PM, Don escribió:
> > > Hi,
> > > How do I move a persons account from RH 7.2 to FC3.  I need to preserve
> > > the password and email account.
> >
> > Don
> >
> > Just copy /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd from the RH7.2 to the new FC3.
> >
> > That's what I do and works fine.
> >
> > David
>
> David,
>
> I hope you meant copy the lines for the user account
> from /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd and the entries from /etc/group rather than the
> whole file... The system accounts and so on are different depending on the
> installed software and copying the whole file can cause havoc...
>
> Peter.
>
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