Re: RH upgrade 7.1 to 8.0

Swenson, Chris wrote:
> I want to bring my servers up to 8.1 or 9.0 this summer.  My problems are to
> little disk space and I have over 5000 accounts.  My solution is hey presto,
> buy a new server which led to the problem of passwords for all those users.
> 
> Problem 1: Can I just move the password, shadow, group files and relevant
> home dir structure and expect the log ons to work?  It sounds too simple.  I
> thought there was some sort of a salt file for the hash in the shadow file
> that I may need.

Use pwunconv on the original system to put everything in /etc/passwd. 
Move the passwd, group and /home directory files to the new machine, and 
run pwconv and it will create the shadow file for you.

As always, test it before you put it into production. ;o)

Forrest
--