Hello, I've got an old fc3 box being retired. I've got 5 accounts on the old box i have to move to the new one. This machine is CentOs 4.2. I don't have the user's passwords and don't want to crack the shadow file to get them. So, i went through the old passwd, shadow, and group file, and got out the relevant parts, then i copied those files over to the new box to a tempoary location. Then i did a cat < oldpasswd,shadow,group files to the new files. This worked without a problem. Then i used scp -Cpqr * on /home which got all the data. So far, so good. The problem is permissions were not transfered and i thought that was the point of -p for scp. Did i miss something is there a command i have to use for the new box to pick up the permissions from the old box? Thanks. Dave.
Dave wrote:
good. The problem is permissions were not transfered and i thought that was the point of -p for scp. Did i miss something is there a command i have to use for the new box to pick up the permissions from the old box?
The -p preserves the date/time and modes, but not the actual UID/GID. Try using rsync with ssh instead, something like:
rsync -avz -e ssh --delete /home/ user@host:/home
This has the added benefit that if it fails midway (network dies, e.g.) you can just re-run it to start where you left off. Note the trailing slash on the source /home/, that's important.
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On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:04, Troy Engel wrote:
good. The problem is permissions were not transfered and i thought that was the point of -p for scp. Did i miss something is there a command i have to use for the new box to pick up the permissions from the old box?
The -p preserves the date/time and modes, but not the actual UID/GID. Try using rsync with ssh instead, something like:
rsync -avz -e ssh --delete /home/ user@host:/home
This has the added benefit that if it fails midway (network dies, e.g.) you can just re-run it to start where you left off. Note the trailing slash on the source /home/, that's important.
Or, you can cd to /home before starting and use '.' as the source so you don't have to remember what the trailing / does: cd /home rsync -avz -e ssh --delete . user@host:/home
And the -z (compress) is probably only worthwhile on slow connections.
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