Thanks for the all the responses.
Basically, all I have to do is copy over the:
/etc/group
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
files. However, in my case, I don't need to recopy over the root/admin etc
ids. Ill just copy over the id's and groups that I need. Also making sure
that there are no dupes.
Thanks!
> We need to swap IP's for two of our SUN boxes running version 2.6
>
> Swapping the ip's wont be too much of a hassle, but we need
> to migrate the users and groups from one server to the other.
>
> What's the best way to do this? Anyone have any experience
> on migrating user id's and groups from one server to another.
>
> Just for further clarification, here is what we need done:
>
> [ We already have the data copied ]
> We need to recreate user accounts on server a onto server b.
> Ideally, somehow migrating their existing password
> Create the groups that exist on server a onto server b
> Ideally, perserving the group permissions to the ID.
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