duplicating user accounts

[Fountainhead]

I have a system with about 300 users on it. I'll be migrating them a dozen or so at a time to a new system. So I need to recreate their accounts on the new system.

I was wondering if anyone out there knew of a script that either 1) used lsuser or 2) parsed /etc/passwd /etc/groups ... to create a script that contains a series of mkuser commands.

I'm about to write my own, but didn't want to reinvent the wheel if I could help it.

Thanks.

Trent

 

[dabit]

Hi,

To duplicate the password and group entries from another AIX box, copy /etc/passwd, /etc/group,/etc/security/passwd,/etc/security/group,/etc/security/user,/etc/security/limits,/etc/security/environ. The last three are optional unless you modified them. If you modified /etc/security/login.cfg, you should also copy that file. -------- this was taken from the FAQ at "comp.unix.aix".....

hope it will help...

 

[ElgisRamon]

And do an
[tt]
for USER in $(lsuser -a id ALL | awk -F'=' '$2>200 {print $1}' | cut -f1 -d' ')
do
mkdir /home/$USER
chown $USER /home/$USER
done
[/tt]
... to reconstruct their home directories, or better: restore'em from a backup!.

I hope it works...