[CentOS] Moving users from Debian-based distro to CentOS

[Gary Greene]

On 8/8/10 10:59 PM, "John R Pierce" <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>   On 08/08/10 10:47 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I have a Debian machine with four users that I plan on migrating to
>> CentOS. As per Debian habits the UIDs start with 1000.
>> 
>> Is it enough to reuse the Debian /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd files
>> over? Or will I need to configure some other things? I had considered
>> just creating four new users starting from UID 500 then chown -R -ing
>> the user's home directories, but I find that invasive and possibly
>> error prone (maybe there are files that are not owned by them).
>> 
>> All advice appreciated. Thanks.
>> 
> 
> I'd compare the passwd files, noting the predefined system accounts.
> when I copy over /etc/passwd entries, I generally cut/paste them, not
> just copy the whole file.  of course, the same entries for /etc/shadow
> 

That and be careful of different hash algorithms being used.... (Found out
the hard way when migrating users from an OpenSuSE box to CentOS....)

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