Exporting user accounts

[bluedragon2]

Is their a way to migrate/export user accounts from one server to another new server?

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[linnorm]

The couple of times I've done it I've just tar'ed up the user directories, grabbed /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd, and ftp'ed it all over to the new server. I appended the contents of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to the existing ones after editing out accounts (like root) that already existed on the new server. I then untar'ed the user directories into place. It's ugly but it worked just fine for me. Just make sure you pick a quiet time on the systems.


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[bluedragon2]

Yeah, I was trying to avoid doing it like that. I wasn't sure it their was an export/import utility or not.

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[SamBones]

You'll probably need [tt]/etc/group[/tt] too.

 

[elgrandeperro]

If the user is in /etc/mail/aliases.
If the user has mail in /var/mail.
If the user has a cronjob/crontab.