Austin Godber wrote: > Actually, your password information is stored in a shadow password file
> which you can't just copy. You must convert it back to a normal
> password file (man pwconv), then copy the resultant /etc/passwd which
> contains all of the neccessary info to the new machine, then run use
> pwconv (or whatever) in the opposite direction ti turn the passwd file
> back into a shadow password file.
>
> This worked for me. I am not sure if there was another way of doing it.
Yeah, what I said here was going to a new machine so there were only a
few home dirs I had to chown.
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