[lug] Moving Users

[Andrew Diederich]

> From: Ian Hall-Beyer [mailto:manuka at nerdherd.net]
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, MauroMedia wrote:
> 
> > What files do I need to copy to move users from one RedHat system to
> > another?
> > I would like to keep passwords the same.
> 
> Generally speaking, their home directory and /etc/passwd and 
> /etc/shadow
> entries, unless you're using a centralized authentication 
> scheme like NIS
> or LDAP.
> 
> -Ian
>

A popular way to move users' home dirs from /home to /newhome:

find . -print | cpio -dumpv /newhome

To keep the files times, ownership, etc. correct.  Make sure you start this 
from /home, and /newhome would be the new mounted harddrive, NFS mount, etc.

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Andrew Diederich