I agree about trimming the parts you want to migrate.  AFAIK, you may want
to grab the appropriate parts of /etc/shadow, if you want the shadow
passwords to follow, also.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pastor Doug Coats" <dcoats at heritagemail.org>
To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:04 PM
Subject: RE: [TCLUG] /etc/passwd etc...


> Chris,
>
> FC1 handles how services log in a little different from RH7.2(I assume
it's
> the same for 7.0).  So I would suggest that after you load all of your
> services that you just cut and paste the portions of the /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group files that deal with your users.  I did this for the groups and
> it seemed to work just fine.  I used a script to recreate my users but I
> think you should be able to do this for your /etc/passwd as well.
>
> Good luck,
> Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Christopher
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:34 AM
> To: 'TCLUG Mailing List'
> Subject: [TCLUG] /etc/passwd etc...
>
>
> I am replacing a RH7.0 server with a Fedora C1 server, I was wondering,
> could I just use scp to copy the
> Current /etc/passwd /etc/group to the new server?
>
>
> TIA,
> Chris
>
>
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