[lug] Migrating users

[Stephen Queen]

On 2/22/07, Paul Nowosielski <paul at celebrityaccess.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm in the middle of migrating our WWW/FTP server to a new box.
> I have many ftp users that grab data feeds from our server.
> I'm wondering if I can just copy /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd files to the new
> server or will I have to actually add the users manually.
>

I have successfully done that in the past.

Steve