Re: The proper way to upgrade a server

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Jesse,

Thanks for the info. I had everything except the gshadow. Awesome help.

Bruce

Jesse Keating <hosting@j2solutions.net> wrote ..
> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 08:06, Bruce P. Morin uttered:
> > We currently have a server in our small office that is running RedHat
> 7.3.
> > We want to move to a new Dell Poweredge running RedHat 8.0. What is the
> > proper way to move the user accounts over so that our end users don't
> have
> > to recreate their user names and passwords?
> 
> Well, you can cut/paste all the >500 UID/GID combos from /etc/passwd, 
> /etc/shadow, /etc/group and /etc/gshadow.  Since the salt and everything
> will 
> be the same, users won't even have to change their passwords.  Make sure
> to 
> pull their home drives as well.
> 
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