Synchoize users account

Dear all,

I have an linux box running Redhat 6.2 as pop3 email server.
We will buy another powerful box and migrate all users account email
to new box.

Does anybody provide me any method to move users account/email from
old box to new linux box?
We don't have any NIS running.

Thanks!!


Regards,

Ellis

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:42:07 -0700, Ellis Chan wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have an linux box running Redhat 6.2 as pop3 email server. We will buy
> another powerful box and migrate all users account email to new box.
>
> Does anybody provide me any method to move users account/email from old
> box to new linux box?
> We don't have any NIS running.
>
That's not a very difficult problem. You don't want to blindly copy the
passwd, shadow, group, & gshadow files from the 6.2 system to the your new
box, but it will work fine if you merge the non-system user account lines
from those files into the corresponding files on the new server. On the
new system you'll want to retain its system account info lest you break
things.

You'll also have to transfer /var/spool/mail/* and /home/* to the new
server. When doing that it is essential that you preserve the ownership
and perms of the files and that's easily done with tar.

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The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed RedHat.