topic Transfer users in Operating System - HP-UX

Transfer users

enrico.nic — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:18:56 GMT

Hi

I need to transfer all users from one machine (with hp-ux 11.0) to a new server (with hp-ux 11.11). Both are trusted systems.

Is it enough to copy:
/etc/passwd
/etc/group
/tcb/files/auth

from one machine to the other ?

Thank you

Enrico

Re: Transfer users

Rainer von Bongartz — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:20:51 GMT

that will be sufficient

Regards
Rainer

Re: Transfer users

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:22:02 GMT

Yes, that will work. Don't forget to copy the users home directories though.

You might want to consider just copying the normal users and omit id's like root, daemon, lp, etc. (the system ids).

Re: Transfer users

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:24:45 GMT

That will work although you also need the users' home directories. Your transfer method is not the supported way of untrusting, copying the passwd and group files, and then trusting but it does work and retains all data. You should, of course, be logged in as root in at least two sessions and have backup copies of the files so that you can get yourself out of trouble as fast as you got yourself in.