[SOLVED] Re: Moving users

2004-11-22 Thread nx13372a
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 mistak

Re: Moving users

2004-11-22 Thread Alvin Oga
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 d

Re: moving users

2003-01-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 09:42:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | How I can move system A user to system B | system A is RedHat and system B Debian Woody? First create the user on system B. Then move the user's home directory (how you do that depends on what hardware set up you have). Also mo

Re: Moving Users Passwords to Debian

1999-01-20 Thread Butch Kemper
I must have been asleep when I tried it the first time. It took two attempts to make it work this time: 1. Failed to observe that all characters between the : are part of the password, even the " character. 2. Copied all characters between the : in the password of

Re: Moving Users Passwords to Debian

1999-01-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I need to move several thousand user entries from a Solaris 2.5.1 system to > a Debian system. The problem that I have is to move the encrypted passwords. > > I have moved passwords between Debian systems by editing the passwd file > and using 'cut & paste". When I tried "cutting & pasting"