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Accounts transfer

Delphi91 · 2004-04-10 16:25:47

My server went pear shaped a while back. I've ordered a complete new system which I should have in a few days time. My question is, is it possible to transfer user accounts, etc onto the new system? My new disks will be 120GB disks and my old one was a 6GB disk. Its a school server and there are a few hundred accounts set…

10-04-2004 4:25pm

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Delphi91

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My server went pear shaped a while back. I've ordered a complete new system which I should have in a few days time.

My question is, is it possible to transfer user accounts, etc onto the new system?
My new disks will be 120GB disks and my old one was a 6GB disk. Its a school server and there are a few hundred accounts set up on it. I'd rather not have to do it all over again!!!

I don't have a CD-writer on my old server so I can't copy stuff to CD, etc. Can I mount the older drive and do some sort of copy from there?

Any help would be appreciated!

Mike

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#2 10-04-2004 5:37pm

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we need more details, eg what distribution is it????

And when you say account what are the accounts used for, samba sharing, ftp????

As much details as you can give us.....

(should be still possible, just need details)

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#3 10-04-2004 7:14pm

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Ok, details as requested:

Current system is SuSE 6.4 - changing to SuSE 9.0

System is used for user authentication, Samba sharing and users also store their files in home directories. I keep some original copies of software on the server and also have a directory of data files that are read only - all connected to via Samba. Its not used as a DHCP server at the moment, and its not a gateway to the net (both of these may be added in the future).

I saw something on a previous post (here) which suggested just copying over the relevant files and groups, etc so that I wouldn't have to do an adduser or use Wemadmin or some such utility to re-create all the usernames and directories.

Mike

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#4 11-04-2004 12:16am

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I do not know much about SuSE but I will make the assumption you could just drop over the passwd, shadow and relevant group files, and the home directory....... and the /etc/samba also

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#5 11-04-2004 1:33am

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niallb has answered this in the other thread.

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