Transferring users

[Austin Godber]

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.

Austin