because I am not above asking...

[George Toft]

As long as you are not moving the passwords, yes.  It seems the 
passwords are dependent upon position (based on experience where
I tried to delete a user using vi on /etc/passwd, and every user
after that position could no longer log in; I restored that user and
all of the others could log in again).

George


Craig White wrote:
> 
> I would love to know how to take a user list from one computer and move it
> to another or more specifically, save the passwd file (obviously, the
> passwords themselves would not go with) like it were smb.conf or firewall
> scripts so I can reformat a hard drive and start over without recreating all
> the users etc.
> 
> can I join the users/groups starting with 500 from an 'old' passwd file to a
> newly created one?
> 
> Craig
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