Migrating from RH6.2 to Fedora

[Jim Carlson]

> Please do NOT hijack foreign threads in future! Sending a new mail (no
> reply to another mail) use a fresh new mail window. Otherwise you mail
> contains false references to a not related thread!

My apologies to the "hijack" I was unaware that using reply and deleting the
contents carried other non visible info.

> To your problem: you will need to transfer /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow,
> /etc/group, /etc/gshadow. Just take the user account data from these
> files and copy it into the same files on the new system. You can copy
> the whole /var/spool/mail folder to the new system. Same with the user's
> home directories. By copying the password file parts you make sure the
> UIDs and GIDs do not change. The content of the document root of the
> apache you can copy too.


Are there any issues with regard to password encryption forms that I need to
insure are configured the same? Or it just simply the copy and I am off and
running.



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