Alvin Oga wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, nx13372a wrote:
Hi,
I have .tgz(s) with the content of /etc and another with /home from a box.
If i untar the /home in a new box and copy the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, is this enough for my users can login?
no, you would be making the classic mistake .. dont do that part having to do with passwd and shadow
# check it .... that it only has home/* in it cd / ; tar ztvf home.tgz | grep home/*
cd / ; tar zxvfp home.tgz
# # put all your userID and passwd in a temp location # cd /home ; mkdir old-pwd-shadow
cd old-pwd-shadow
tar zxvfp old-etc.tgz
vi old-pwd-shadow/etc/passwd .... - remove all the system passwd entries
- all users should be id's after 100 or 500 or 1,000 or whatever you used for userID
= = do NOT copy system id's to the new box .. strange things will happen =
vi old-pwd-shadow/etc/shadow ... - remove all the system passwd entries
now you are ready to put your users into your new box
cp -p /etc/shadow /etc/shadow.original cp -p /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.original
cat old-wpd-shadow/etc/shadow >> /etc/shadow cat old-wpd-shadow/etc/passwd >> /etc/passwd
== look for any duplicate usernames and userIDs and groupIDs - remove the old ones .. use the new one in the new system
c ya alvin
Many thanks Alvin Oga
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