2010/12/22 Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>: > hi all, > > I will be migrating my mail server from centos 4.8 to 6 when its released. > Basically its just a number of users with their passwords. Their mail is > downloaded to their clients > and not stored on the server. > > What is the most sensible or correct way to migrate ALL the users to the > new system? > Way in the past is was just perhaps copy the /etc/passwd file but I know > thats not the case anymore. > how do I easily recreate their account names etc... on the new machine. cp&paste correct entries from passwd and shadow files + copy files? -- Eero