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On Thu July 21 2005 10:56 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: |
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> I would like to know what would be the best or most proper method for |
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> migrating a user database from flat files /etc/passwd etc on a Redhat |
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> System to a newly set up'ed gentoo box. |
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> Do I just copy and paste the relevent details into the Gentoo Box, |
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> (which most likely will work after I take into account the uid starts |
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> difference (1000 on gentoo and 500 on redhat). |
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I've been doing the same thing. I've migrated two FC3 machines to Gentoo and |
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have four to go. I copied the "regular" users from the FC3 /etc/passwd |
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and /etc/shadow and pasted them into Gentoo. I did not copy any system |
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users over. I also set UID_MIN to 500 in /etc/login.defs. Just make sure |
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you don't already have any users on Gentoo over 500. |
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I haven't had any problems yet, but maybe someone else can tell if I've |
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overlooked anything. |
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Ron |
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