On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Raymond Norton wrote: > What occurs during scp that you can't just copy over existing passwd, > shadow, group, and /home files to the new server and get them to work? Make sure to use the -p option: -p Tells scp2 to preserve file attributes and timestamps Then make sure that the file ownerships are correct. I'm not sure that the -p option preserves file ownership. I'm pretty sure that it is much safer, for /home, to use tar create, with the correct options, then scp and tar extract. Maybe someone else will have more recent experience doing this. I last did it more than three years ago. Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list