On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> 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. I prefer to start my users at 1000, even on RH/CentOS systems. Check out the libuser.conf file which has configuration for the minimum user ID (LU_UIDNUMBER). I set to mine to 1000.