Hello All,
I am a student sys admin and not a professional. I'd like to know how can I migrate the user accounts in the current server to a new server( to be installed) non-destructively. Also in what way the old server can be used after installation of the new server. I'd sincerely appreciate any helpful ideas and thanks in advance .
You didn't mention what flavor of UNIX you are working with so I will tell you how to do it in AIX.
if you're moving to a brand new system with no users created yet you can simply move the following files to the new box from the old box (please create backup files at the destination before the copy):
Thank you so much Dogday, Im sorry to trouble you again. The flav of Unix Im using is Linux (Redhat 7.1.2.96-98 to be specific). Anyway we are planning to use Suse 9.0 enterprise edition on the new server. I greatly appreciate your help and thank you for the help ur gonna do. ) . Have fun.
Hi,
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Hi there,
Hope this forum is adapted to my question. I have :
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Hi,
I was wondering if someone could tell me how to display a list of all existing user accounts on the system, not neccesarily looged in. Thanks in advance
Stephen (3 Replies)
I have found a script to create user accounts. But there are a few lines i dont understand. Can someone help me with this? Here's the code:
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while ;
do
ACCT=${USER_ACCT}${START}
START=`expr $START + 1`
START=`echo ${START} | awk... (3 Replies)