Migrating Linux users from one system to other

I am wanting to move a lot of users from one server(running RH9) to another
(running FC3) and keeo their user names, passwords and mailboxes (mbox
format) intact. Can anyone suggest easiest ways of doing so, so that I don't
have to manually recreate all accounts?

Thanks, tom

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 07:13:06 +1300, Tom Webb wrote:

> I am wanting to move a lot of users from one server(running RH9) to another
> (running FC3) and keeo their user names, passwords and mailboxes (mbox
> format) intact. Can anyone suggest easiest ways of doing so, so that I don't
> have to manually recreate all accounts?
>
> Thanks, tom

'newusers'

In comp.os.linux.networking ray <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 07:13:06 +1300, Tom Webb wrote:

>> I am wanting to move a lot of users from one server(running RH9) to another
>> (running FC3) and keeo their user names, passwords and mailboxes (mbox
>> format) intact. Can anyone suggest easiest ways of doing so, so that I don't
>> have to manually recreate all accounts?
>>
>> Thanks, tom

> 'newusers'

Does newusers work with MD5 passwords? "useradd -p" doesn't, it
just works with crypt() passwords. Anyway, with taking a little
care about UID/GID he could simply append the relevant accounts,
UID>500 or so, from shadow/passwd/groups to his new system and
copy over /home and so on.

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In message <eJqnd.6713$(E-Mail Removed)>, Tom Webb wrote:

> I am wanting to move a lot of users from one server(running RH9) to
> another (running FC3) and keeo their user names, passwords and mailboxes
> (mbox format) intact. Can anyone suggest easiest ways of doing so, so that
> I don't have to manually recreate all accounts?
>
Does the new machine already exist? Imaging the RH9 disk onto the new
machine and then upgrading to FC3 might be the easiest way. I know that
when I switched from RH9 to FC2 it just all worked when I did the upgrade.
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