Re: migrating passwd file...

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From: Michael James
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 00:00

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Bill Holder wrote:
> 
> HELP!!!!!!
> 
> I am about to decommission an old Redhat 3.03 dial in server and replace
> it with a new redhat 4.2 server, but I have a huuuge problem.
> 
>         I can't get the new server to recognise the old passwd file.
> 
>         What I have done is copy the /etc/passwd and /etc/group from the
> old machine to the new machine, I also copied the old /bin/login command
> from the old machine so I could bypass the PAM stuff for now.
> 
>         There is no shadow suite involved, it just won't accept the users
> logins.
> 

Check that you are also migrating the permissions and owner of the files
as well.
This is the only thing I can think of at the moment.

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