On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 08:30, Keith Morse wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Adam Lang wrote: > > > I am looking to reinstall an email server. I want to keep my user accounts > > and passwords and transfer them to the new server. Is it as easy as copying > > /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and the /var/spool/mail directory? > > > Having just done this I'd include /etc/group and /etc/gshadow and don't > forget to trim the system accounts from the old files before adding to the > new ones. And, if any of your "old" users have an exotic shell, don't forget to twiddle /etc/shells. Andy - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
