[TriLUG] Moving user accounts

[Dave Sorenson]

Reason for moving from FC 2 is that release is no longer officially
supported (I know about legacy project has support, I don't count that. I
mean supported by the Fedora proj directly). I'm not going with Fedora core
as my next OS because 1. I'd like an OS that will have a longer support
cycle, and is a little less cutting edge. 2. Cent is a distro that is a
direct recompile of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and I'm familiar with the RH
way of doing business. The Cent folks have a pretty good track record of
getting updates out very quickly.

Also, I'm using Cent @ work, so it gives me another test bed to learn new
things and try stuff without messing up the production boxes. I like Kubuntu
(KDE version of Ubuntu) for my desktop, but for a server I tend to lean
towards the familiar Red Hat distros.

Anyway, no rhyme or reason, just familiarity of Cent/ RHEL

DS

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Michael Martin
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 2:42 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Moving user accounts

Dave-

Sorry I don't have an answer for you as I am a newbie, but I do have a
question for you. What were your reasons for moving from FC2 to CentOS? With
the overwhelming number of distros, I'm alway curious about how people make
the big decision.

Thanks

later
-Michael

On 6/19/05, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com> wrote:
> I'm getting ready to move my server from Fedora core 2 to Cent OS. In 
> preparation , I've installed a second hard drive, moved the home 
> directories to it along with my mysql databases. I've copied /etc 
> there as well to maintain a copy of all the configurations. I plan to 
> remount the 2nd hard drive as /home after the OS upgrade
> 
> My questions are, have I missed anything in the saving copies of stuff?
> And
> After I install Cent.. can I restore the existing users from /etc info?
> 
> I only have 5 users and could just use adduser but I'm using this as a 
> learning experiment.
> 
> THANKS in advance!
> 
> Dave S
> 
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