On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:31:48PM -0000, Nigel Kendrick said: > I am doing a server swap out tomorrow and wondered if there was a utility > that will copy user account details and their current passwords from one > server to another (both CentOS 4) - there's only about 15 to do so it's not > a major issue. Rsync and scp are your friend. You can either cut and paste the user info from the /etc/passwd, shadow, and group files manually, or copy the entire files which wiill also copy over all the system accounts (root password and such): cd /etc scp -p passwd shadow group newserver:/etc Then of course you will probably need to copy the user home directories over: cd /home rsync -aze ssh * newserver:/home