Transferring users

[David Mandala]

In that case use adduser to add all of the users and when that is done
cut and paste the passwords from the /etc/shadow file. That will get
them the appropriate uid and gid entries on the new machine and the same
passwords from the old machine.

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 10:08, Kyle Faber wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 9:51 am, David Mandala wrote:
> > Then create the home directories and you are off and running. If the
> > machine is not a new build it could be much more complicated as you
> > could have accounts already on the machine that use the same uid's and
> > gids which is a no no.
> >
> 
> 	Its not a new build, and the uid/gid problem was exactly what I was warned 
> about.   
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