[CentOS] preparing to migrating to new system

Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen at iki.fi
Tue Dec 21 22:10:06 UTC 2010


2010/12/22 Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>:
> hi all,
>
> I will be migrating my mail server from centos 4.8 to 6 when its released.
> Basically its just a number of users with their passwords. Their mail is
> downloaded to their clients
> and not stored on the server.
>
> What is the most sensible or correct way to migrate ALL the users to the
> new system?
> Way in the past is was just perhaps copy the /etc/passwd file but I know
> thats not the case anymore.
> how do I easily recreate their account names etc... on the new machine.

cp&paste correct entries from passwd and shadow files + copy files?

--
Eero



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