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[ILUG] Question about transferring system

[ILUG] Question about transferring system

Michael Treacy delphi91 at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 14 00:33:44 IST 2004


>Could he not just add the users and groups change the uid and gids in the
>/etc/passwd and /etc/groups to suit the old system and mount the old drives
>/home as /home ??

Only problem is, I have a few hundred users, 'cos its a server in a school 
lab! I'd rather not have to add them all again if I didn't have to....

Mike

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