Re: migrating users from redhat to debian without changing their passwords

2005-10-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:40:44AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:05:59PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > 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. > > 1000 for me... Mand

Re: migrating users from redhat to debian without changing their passwords

2005-10-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:05:59PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > 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. 1000 for me... Mandr{iva,ake} starts at 500 or 501 I believe, most others at 1000. > If y

Re: migrating users from redhat to debian without changing their passwords

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
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 an

migrating users from redhat to debian without changing their passwords

2005-10-06 Thread Radhika
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