Moving user accounts from one server to another

[Sirmarsh]

What is the best way to move existing user accounts to a newly built server, without re-adding them one by one? Is there a doc on this somewhere?


thanks in advance guys

Sirmarsh

 

[bfitzmai]

If your user accounts are in a separate partition and all in one place like /export/home you can use ufsdump on the partition. If your user accounts are not in a separate partition you can use tar -cfp to a tape. The p option will keep the owner/group privileges when you extract the tar file on your new server.

 

[SBSaikia]

May not be the best option, but works, nice thing even it keep the passwd intact.

upload the /etc/passwd, /etc/group & /etc/shadow files & edit these to keep only the users,groups you want to add.
Concatenate these edited files to respective files on the new system. then create home dir thru a script or manually.

-sbsaikia

 

[guggach]

use NIS+ and shared home-dirs

don't forget, RTFMP
guggach