You can just concatenate the original passwd, shadow, and group files to the new systems's files. The new system will have different privelidged user numbers so be sure to append only user id's >= 500 in passwd, shadow, and group. -eric wood Christopher Wong wrote: > Is there an "official" way to transfer user account information (user > IDs, passwords, home directories, etc) to another Linux machine? It > looks like I will have to manually copy/edit the /etc/passwd and > /etc/group files. Other Unices often have some sort of account info > export utility. > > No, I am not planning on setting up NIS nor LDAP. They seem overkill. > > Chris
