On Tuesday 28 December 2004 22:33, David Limon Romero wrote: > El Mar 28 Dic 2004 7:33 PM, Don escribió: > > Hi, > > How do I move a persons account from RH 7.2 to FC3. I need to preserve > > the password and email account. > > Don > > Just copy /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd from the RH7.2 to the new FC3. > > That's what I do and works fine. > > David David, I hope you meant copy the lines for the user account from /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd and the entries from /etc/group rather than the whole file... The system accounts and so on are different depending on the installed software and copying the whole file can cause havoc... Peter.
