[ILUG] importing accounts

[cnb at eircom.net]

What I'm having problems doing is copying the information for the human 
users from one shadow file into another. I'm very in-experienced with 
editors in RH. How do you cut text in one file and paste it to another file?



At 23:10 10/08/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:10:05PM +0100, John Kelly wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 10 2001 at 05:51PM, cnb at eircom.net(cnb at eircom.net) wrote:
> > : How do you copy the users data from one passwd file into another? I 
> tried
> > : it with vi and pico but couldn't figure out how.
> > man 8 vipw
>
>well, a bit more info might be nice.  essentially copy the text from
>the passwd, shadow, group and gshadow files that you need and put them
>on the new machine.  the easy way to do this is to either scp over the
>files or to nfs mount the old machine onto the new.
>
>kevin
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