Re: [suse-security] transfering accounts

Hi,

I have an old RH6.0 box from which I'd like to export all the accounts to a brand new SuSE 7.2 box. here's the method I'd like to apply :

Create the accounts with yast copying the /etc/passwd file from RH6.0 to SuSE 7.2 Copying the /etc/shadow file from RH6.0 to SuSE 7.2

Most of the accounts are customers accounts and I don't have all the passwd, so I don't want to miss one thing.... Regarding roots and internal accounts, everything is ok, I have the passwds....

Is the process correct, is it enough ? is there a simpler way to do this all ?

Not quite. Remove the first lines containing system owned users from both the passwd and shadow file and append the rest to the SuSE files. A simple copy will not work flawlessly: The numerical userIDs of system users are not normed in any way except for the fact that the number must be below 100.

Thanx Stephane

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