I agree about trimming the parts you want to migrate. AFAIK, you may want to grab the appropriate parts of /etc/shadow, if you want the shadow passwords to follow, also. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pastor Doug Coats" <dcoats at heritagemail.org> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:04 PM Subject: RE: [TCLUG] /etc/passwd etc... > Chris, > > FC1 handles how services log in a little different from RH7.2(I assume it's > the same for 7.0). So I would suggest that after you load all of your > services that you just cut and paste the portions of the /etc/passwd and > /etc/group files that deal with your users. I did this for the groups and > it seemed to work just fine. I used a script to recreate my users but I > think you should be able to do this for your /etc/passwd as well. > > Good luck, > Doug > > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Christopher > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:34 AM > To: 'TCLUG Mailing List' > Subject: [TCLUG] /etc/passwd etc... > > > I am replacing a RH7.0 server with a Fedora C1 server, I was wondering, > could I just use scp to copy the > Current /etc/passwd /etc/group to the new server? > > > TIA, > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list