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05-13-2005

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for /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow --- just grep out the user entries and append them into the appropriate files in the new servers so the uid, gid and passwords for the users stay the same ... a lot of places use the same group file entries so if this is the case with you, you can just copy over /etc/group to the new host also ...

Code:

for i in passwd shadow
do
    egrep -v "root|lp|smtp" /etc/$i > /tmp/$i
    scp /tmp/$i newhost:/tmp/$i
    ssh newhost "cat /tmp/$i >> /etc/$i; rm /tmp/$i"
    rm /tmp/$i
done
scp -p /etc/group newhost:/etc/group

for the home-related files and directories (i.e., .bash_profile, etc.), just copy them over ... if you have remote root ssh access on the remote server you can do the code below ... (change the correct paths to the user data directories on both local and remote hosts) ... for rsh access only, change the ssh to rsh ...

Code:

cd /home
tar cvfp - * | ssh newhost "cd /newhomedir; tar xvfp -"
tar cvfp - .[a-zA-Z0-9]* | ssh newhost "cd /homedir; tar xvfp -"

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or ... if you are not automounting home directories ...
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tar cvfp - /home | ssh newhost "cd /; tar xvfp -"

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or ... if you are automounting home directories ... (sample assumes it is automounted from /export/home) ...
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(cd /export; tar cvfp - home) | ssh newhost "cd /export; tar xvfp -"

there other transfer options you can use ... see "man dd", "man ufsdump", etc. depending on your OS platform ...

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nsquery

nsquery(1) General Commands Manual nsquery(1)

Name
nsquery - name server query command

Syntax
/usr/ucb/nsquery [ lookup ] [ host ] [ server ]

Description
The command provides an interface to obtain host name and address information.

If you specify host, the command obtains information about the specified host. If no host is specified, the command obtains information
about the local host system.

If you specify server, the command queries the BIND server that you specify. If you do not specify a server, the command queries the
default BIND server.

Options
lookup Retrieves the host name, Internet Protocol (IP) address, and aliases of the specified host. If no host or server is specified, the
command obtains information about the local system from the default BIND server.

If you do specify the lookup option, the command obtains the information about the BIND server and host specified (or their
defaults). If the system from which you issue the command is a BIND server, and you do not specify the lookup option, information
about only that server is retrieved.

Files
Directory containing BIND server data file

BIND server boot file

Host database file containing name to address mapping for BIND primary
server

Host database file containing address to name mapping for BIND primary
server

Local host database file containing address to name mapping for BIND
server

BIND server cache file

BIND data file

See Also
nslookup(1), resolver(3), resolver(5), named(8)
Guide to the BIND/Hesiod Service

nsquery(1)