On Monday 27 October 2003 00:01, darryl penny wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:24:38 -0600, Stan Glasoe wrote
GAS I'm thinking of doing this at our school, ±700 users. I know about the 'newusers' command - is that the only way?
All you need to do is copy YOUR users section from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and place them in the same files on the newly upgraded system. Don't create a user during hte upgrade and just login as root and append your users onto the new /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file. If you've upgraded and KEPT your /home directory, all you have to do is modify the proper files and all the users are back. You don't have to use any funky commands and recreate people. That's WAY TOO SLOW. If you have +/- 700 users I'd assume that you would be using some sort of network user management system, like NIS. Might want to look into adding something like that in the future, makes adding all those users to multiple systems a snap. good luck, brian -- Brian Jackson http://www.BrianJacksonPhoto.com http://www.ActionAthletics.com http://www.sportsshooter.com/brian