On Wednesday 29 December 2004 00:31, Don wrote: > Jorge, > Thanks. > > Would that be just the home directory? Or are there other directories to > copy a persons complete account? > > And by copying the etc/shadow, etc/passwd and etc/group would this create > there accounts on my new machine? > > Is there anything else I should be asking? > > I am sorta new at this. > > Thanks > Don Don, unlike on windows, all your personal files should be in your home directory only - you should have no personal files laying around anywhere else... and again, don't copy the whole file - you will run into issues there. Just copy the individual lines you need... Peter.