On 8/8/10 10:59 PM, "John R Pierce" <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: > On 08/08/10 10:47 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I have a Debian machine with four users that I plan on migrating to >> CentOS. As per Debian habits the UIDs start with 1000. >> >> Is it enough to reuse the Debian /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd files >> over? Or will I need to configure some other things? I had considered >> just creating four new users starting from UID 500 then chown -R -ing >> the user's home directories, but I find that invasive and possibly >> error prone (maybe there are files that are not owned by them). >> >> All advice appreciated. Thanks. >> > > I'd compare the passwd files, noting the predefined system accounts. > when I copy over /etc/passwd entries, I generally cut/paste them, not > just copy the whole file. of course, the same entries for /etc/shadow >
That and be careful of different hash algorithms being used.... (Found out the hard way when migrating users from an OpenSuSE box to CentOS....) -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. IT Operations Minerva Networks, Inc. Cell: (650) 704-6633 Phone: (408) 240-1239 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
