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ok as it shows and you also advice to replace the disk. i think it would be
better to replace the GPT. for ease of use. and am going to create another
box.
Sorry but the above is hard for me to understand. Are you asking how
> you can transfer users from /etc/passwd on one machine to another
> machine? If that is your question then I would copy those users to
> the new machine's /etc/passwd file. Copy the user account lines (user
> accounts have uid's and gid's >=1000) from these files:
>
> /etc/passwd
> /etc/group
> /etc/shadow
> /etc/gshadow
>
> Append the user account lines from those files onto the end of the new
> machine's files. That is all that is needed.
>
> These commands may be useful for extracting the user account lines
> from these files.
>
> awk -F: '$3>=1000' /etc/passwd
>
> awk -F: '$3>=1000 && $3<65534{print$1}' /etc/passwd
>
> for i in $(awk -F: '$3>=1000 && $3<65534{print$1}' /etc/passwd); do grep
> "^$i:" /etc/group; done
>
> for i in $(awk -F: '$3>=1000 && $3<65534{print$1}' /etc/passwd); do grep
> "^$i:" /etc/shadow; done
>
> for i in $(awk -F: '$3>=1000 && $3<65534{print$1}' /etc/passwd); do grep
> "^$i:" /etc/gshadow; done
>
> Look this over, understand what they are doing, then append the
> results onto the new files on the new system and the old users will
> have been transferred to the new system.
>
> awk -F: '$3>=1000 && $3<65534{print$1}' /etc/passwd > /root/passwd.users
>
> for i in $(awk -F: '$3>=1000 && $3<65534{print$1}' /etc/passwd); do grep
> "^$i:" /etc/group; done > /root/group.users
>
> And so forth. Then copy those files to the new machine. Then append
> those lines to the correct files on the new machine.
>
>
sorry for the poor question once again. it is quite a script and i learned
from it however my question was a bit different.
i am not using an independent samba box. my samba is winbind with windows
active directory and all the users are called and assigned rights from my
Microsoft windows AD user db.
as you know /etc/passwd file has no presence of AD users. samba is the one
who manages the database and assigned GID and UID all by it self. and there
is a utility to edit and set gid and uid called wbinfo.
as i have tried earlier samba assign these numbers randomly to the users. i
have tested that.
so just trying to find a easy way to actually replicate the same samba as
the failing one and as a result of that i do not have to assign all the
rights to individual users on restored data beside that i can just copy
paste the data and my new storage will work like the old one with out any
hassle.
Thanks,
yousuf
> Hope that helps!
> Bob
>
