On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:19:17PM -0700, Eucke Warren wrote: > I have an old RH6(?) or 7 server running Postfix serving a number of > users. I am replacing it with a completely new server and a new RH9 > build using Sendmail. Am I being naive to assume that I can simply > copy the /var/spool/mail folder, /home folder and the /etc/passwd file > to the new server to preserve the existing users mail? You can coyp /var/spool/mail but not /etc/passwd. What you want to do is grab the /etc/passwd entries for uids over 500, match those with the shadow entries (/etc/shadow), repeat for /etc/group and /etc/gshadow, and append those entries to your existing files. I am assuming you enabled shadow passwords on your older systems - my 6.2 system certainly had shadow passwords. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
