On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 06:36:19PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: : i am just moving our server on a new machine running debian, : unfortunately i do not know exactly on how to passon easily my users from : the old slackware machine to the new one, the new one having shadow : passwords.... thus i assume i can't just copy the old passwd file to the : new location...
On the new machine: /usr/sbin/shadowconfig off . Now put the passwd file from the old machine in the /etc/passwd of the new machine, beware of any double UID's etc. Now issue /usr/sbin/shadowconfig on . Cheers, -Remco
