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

[Jorge Fábregas <fabregasj prtc net>]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:21 am, Don wrote:
> How do I move there directories and preserve their owner ship?  I have
> about 30 accounts on another machine.

If you use tar to backup the directories, permissions and ownerships are going 
to be retained (assuming you have same user accounts on the other system).

man tar

HTH,
Jorge