[TriLUG] Machine Swap-out: preserving users

[Brian Henning]

Okay.  TIAS-ed, and it worked.  Sorry for the bit o' noise. :-)

~B

Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi Y'all,
>   As soon as parts come in, I'm going to be swapping out a server.  I 
> want the usernames/passwords to all be the same, so could I do something 
> like copy /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow to the replacement 
> and have things work?  I want it to be as seamless as possible, so 
> having username/uid pairs remain constant would be a big plus; that way 
> I won't have to fool around with ownerships when I copy the user data 
> over; just preserve it and it should be smooth.  Right? ...
> 
> Thanks again for the sage advice!
> 
> ~Brian