On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 02:49:03AM -0700, Radhika wrote: > Hi, > > > Presently we are migrating from redhat linux webserver to debian 3.1 > webserver so we need to get the all usernames and passwords need to move to > debian 3.1 webserver so that users can login using their same usernames and > passwords. > > How do we do this.One option is copy the shadow file in to debian and next > how to proceed. > > My main aim is without creating all usernames and passwords again in debian > linux how to deal with this problem > > Please help me with the solution for this > > Best Regards > Check carefully: I know that Debian starts its "real users" at user id 500,501,502 ... . I'm not sure if Redhat uses the same numbering.
If you are not careful, you get "real users" under RedHat which are "system/daemon users" under Debian or vice versa. Type shadowconfig off on the RedHat box - that leaves you with everything in /etc/passwd file. Migrate that. Edit as appropriate. It might be worth adding the users under Debian anyway - if there aren't too many - so that you get them in a sequence you want. I copied across /home by (in /home) tar -pcvf oldhome.tar ./* then copying it to /tmp on the other box, changing to /home and typing tar -pxvf /tmp/oldhome.tar Odd user and group id's can be resolved with a recursive ownership change. chown -R [user]:[group] [name of directory to change] so (for example) chown -R andycater:users andycater Any odd groups / users will show up as unmatched numeric values when you do a ls -al on /home in this scenario. Then you just type id [user] to get their uid/gid on the new box and do the chown trick as above. HTH, Andy > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! for Good > Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
