Re: [CentOS] preparing to migrating to new system

On 12/22/10 4:26 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:

Greetings,

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Eero Volotineneero.volotinen@iki.fi wrote:

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2010/12/22 Rajagopal Swaminathanraju.rajsand@gmail.com:

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scp<oldbox>:/etc/passwd<brand new CentOS 6 Box geewiz>:/etc/passwd ditto /etc/gshadow,/etc/groups, /etc/gshadow

It's possibly better way only to cp&paste normal usernames, not internal daemons and so on.

I did not quite understand the phrase "internal daemons and so on". Could you elucidate further please...

I alluded to the names of four files which matter in the context.

On CentOS 5, uids up to 500 are reserved for the system and will belong to various installed packages. 501 and up should be the users you installed locally.