On 08/08/10 10:47 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a Debian machine with four users that I plan on migrating to > CentOS. As per Debian habits the UIDs start with 1000. > > Is it enough to reuse the Debian /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd files > over? Or will I need to configure some other things? I had considered > just creating four new users starting from UID 500 then chown -R -ing > the user's home directories, but I find that invasive and possibly > error prone (maybe there are files that are not owned by them). > > All advice appreciated. Thanks. > why not use useradd with the -u uid option so they match? don't forget groups, btw. -g, -G, and create the groups with the same GID's.