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Old February 5th, 2002, 03:13 PM
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Question How to transfer user accounts?
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I'm going to move my old linux to the other new machine. However, how can I backup all those user accounts and restore them on the new machine? Please help. Thanks.

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Old February 5th, 2002, 06:12 PM
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Copy the home directories (found under /home/) and the appropiate lines from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (only for real users, not for system stuff, not for root).
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Old February 6th, 2002, 08:43 AM
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That's it? Thank you man. Let me try it.
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Old February 6th, 2002, 08:45 AM
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One more thing - copy or backup /root/, if root wants to have his/her settings and personal files (although there shouldn't be any ) back.
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Old February 6th, 2002, 11:05 PM
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There is more that you need to copy. The first thing you should copy is the /etc/group file. If you don't, what happens to all the owners of the files?
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Old February 7th, 2002, 05:37 AM
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Oops - you're right.
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Old February 7th, 2002, 08:49 AM
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Thx MattWil and realnowhereman,
So, what I should to do is:

1/ Copy /home/user directory
2/ Copy /etc/passwd
3/ Copy /etc/shadow
4/ Copy /root
5/ Copy /etc/group

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Old February 7th, 2002, 08:51 AM
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If you're not changing your distro or upgrading to a newer version, this should be sufficient.
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Old February 12th, 2002, 09:37 PM
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Sorry if this is late but copy /etc/group first. If you don't then when you copy /home/user all of the files will lose their group setting.
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