Peter and David, Thanks for the info. There are a few more things:
How do I move there directories and preserve their owner ship? I have about 30 accounts on another machine.
This info is really appreciated Don
At 07:43 PM 12/28/2004, you wrote:
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.
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