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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory ? on xferring user info from one sys to another Post 29633 by kymberm on Wednesday 9th of October 2002 07:59:02 PM
Old 10-09-2002
? on xferring user info from one sys to another

I've been setting up a duplicate system to replace an ailing ultra 2, same os version, same file & directory structure, same databases, now I just wanted to doublecheck that for user info, to copy over exact user login info, i need to copy the etc/passwd, etc/group and etc/shadow files. THis will let users login to the new machine and not realize there's been any changes, right? I'm also copying over all their home directories. Trying to make this as invisible to the end users as possible.

THanks for all the help here!
 

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userdel(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       userdel(1M)

NAME
userdel - delete a user's login from the system SYNOPSIS
userdel [-r] login DESCRIPTION
The userdel utility deletes a user account from the system and makes the appropriate account-related changes to the system file and file system. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -r Remove the user's home directory from the system. This directory must exist. The files and directories under the home directory will no longer be accessible following successful execution of the command. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: login An existing login name to be deleted. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. 2 Invalid command syntax. A usage message for the userdel command is displayed. 6 The account to be removed does not exist. 8 The account to be removed is in use. 10 Cannot update the /etc/group or /etc/user_attr file but the login is removed from the /etc/passwd file. 12 Cannot remove or otherwise modify the home directory. FILES
/etc/passwd system password file /etc/shadow system file contain users' encrypted passwords and related information /etc/group system file containing group definitions /etc/user_attr system file containing additional user attributes ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
auths(1), passwd(1), profiles(1), roles(1), users(1B), groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), logins(1M), roleadd(1M), rolemod(1M), useradd(1M), userdel(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), prof_attr(4), user_attr(4), attributes(5) NOTES
The userdel utility only deletes an account definition that is in the local /etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/user_attr file. file. If a network name service such as NIS or NIS+ is being used to supplement the local /etc/passwd file with additional entries, userdel cannot change information supplied by the network name service. SunOS 5.10 8 Sep 1999 userdel(1M)
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