[techtalk] Moving up.

[bill t]

>  You mean something like this (assuming you have ssh available)?
>  
>  	tar cf - /home | ssh new-machine "cd /; tar xf -"
>  
>  (you can replace ssh with rsh if you like.)
>  
>  >  Anyway, my question is.  does tar keep the files by the owner name or
>  > UID, this would make a difference as if I hand enter the users again,
>  > (moving some actual users to just virtual email) for instance, I may
>  > have different username to UID.  Will the files match the proper UID
>  > with user name?

You can move the /etc/passwd, /etc/groups files over and you'll have instant
users with proper uid. If your using shadow passwords, copy the
password.shad(??) files as well.

What I normally do in this situation is tar up the entire /etc directory
move it over, and selectively change files from the old one.

Bill

>  
>  The tar command saves using uid. If you are entering users by hand, bear
>  in mind that you can always specify the uid for new users (I'm not sure
>  what distribution or tools you are using, but, for example, the useradd
>  command has a -u option for this).
>  
>  Cheers,
>  Malcolm
>  
>  -- 
>  Malcolm Tredinnick            email: malcolm at commsecure.com.au
>  CommSecure Pty Ltd
>  
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