Re: Move my user account to a new machine

Kevin Krammer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.linux
Organization KDE
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday, 2013-03-28, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I'm in the process of moving to a new machine as my day-to-day
> platform. I want to verify what I need to do to ensure the minimum
> number of problems with my KDE user account. The things that come to
> mind for me are:
> 
> 1) Make sure any user specific values in /etc/group & /etc/passwd are
> duplicated and use the same numeric values.
> 
> 2) rsync /home/mark on the current machine to the new machine

I have moved my home directory like that several times. Even without having 
the same user id (but running rsync as the respective users).

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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