Re: Replicating user account info

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On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 13:25, Eric Wood wrote:
> 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.
> 

Don't forget /etc/gshadow if you're copying the group file.

Also, you'll need to copy the users' home directories (that goes without
saying I guess) and any other files owned by them, such as mail inboxes
in /var/spool/mail, and crontabs in /var/spool/cron

HTH HAND,

Jeremy

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