On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 10:03 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote: > >Knute Johnson wrote: > >> I've finally gotten F7 to run on my computer and now I want to > >> migrate my mailserver from the old computer running FC4 to the new > >> one. How do I move my users passwords and mail to the new computer? > >> Is there a guide somewhere? This must be a fairly common procedure. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >I am not sure about a guide - I never looked for one. One way to do > >it is to grab the user section of passwd, shadow, group, and > >gshadow. Then merge them into the corresponding files one the new > >system using vipw and vigr. Then, depending on the setup, tar up the > >mail spool, and untar it on the new system. Do the same with the > >/home tree if necessary. If you are using SELinux, you will have to > >relabel the files after moving them. You will want to update passwd > >before untaring the files from the other system. > > > >This is not a complete description by any means, but hopefully it > >will point you in the right direction, and others will jump in to > >fill in the stuff I am forgetting! > > > >Mikkel > > Mikkel: > > Thanks very much. I'm going to have to try this I think before I'm > really ready to migrate just to make sure I don't create a huge mess. ---- always risky to edit /etc/passwd /etc/shadow & /etc/group manually. make backup copies first be certain to add the exact matching lines from /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow from the old versions to the new. I feel the obligation to add that if you were using LDAP for backend authentication, this would be a much simpler process. Craig
