On 9/1/05, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote: > I have a new Centos installation that has an empty /home dir and there > are no users...just root. I want to move the home directory from > another server to the new one. At this time the old /home directory has > been tarred with "-prf". That will keep permissions which could be a > problem. I only have a few users on my machine. What I do is, use useradd or what not to create the users in the same order as the UID. Copy over the home dirs, moving the newlly created ones elsewhere. Then copy and paste the crypted password in the shadow file. You could paste the users from /etc/passwd shadow and group if you have a lot of users instead of creating the accounts.