[CentOS] Upgrade mail server to new machine

Gopinath Achari

gopinath at signal-networks.com
Mon May 11 04:29:33 UTC 2009


there is no problem in the order. only thing is the folder of home directory 
and mail boxes should be properly restored with the same permissions and 
ownership .


On Thursday 07 May 2009 19:44, Dan Carl wrote:
> d just copy /home/* /etc/shadow and
>
> > /etc/passwd and /var/spool/mail. Does it matter which file I copy
> > first? Should I do passwd and shadow first? then do home, and leave
> > /var/spool/mail to last?
> >
> > If I do it this way, will it keep all my users passwords as well?




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