Copyied /etc/passwd file from server 1 to server 2 but unable to login to server 2 with perticular u

[Rohit Nagare]

Hi,
Good Morning.
I have two Redhat 4 Linux servers (64 bit)
The server 2 is newly Redhat 4 linux (64 bit)installed. I have copyed /etc/passwd file from server 1 to server 2. But unable to login with perticular user on server 2 (login id rohit).
error message as

login as: rohit
rohit@10.20.4.18's password:
Access denied


Thanks & Regards
Rohit Nagare

[Goran Koruga]

Hello.

Are you saying your system doesn't use shadow passwords?

Regards,
Goran

[Rohit Nagare]

Hi Goran,
Thanks for the replay.

I have should i copy shadow file and gshado file on /etc of the server 2.


Regards
Rohit

[Ivan Ferreira]

You should not replace the files, you should only copy the content of the file that you are interested to replicate, and ensure that you don't have any duplicate UIDs.

If you are sure, and you want to replace the files, you should copy passwd, shadow and group files.

[Nuwan Alwis]

Hi Rohit,
My question woud be why you want to such a thing.
If you are tring to achive single login to both systems you could have implemented public/private key auth via ssh.
Any way as above post said never over write these files because it will over ride the permission aswell.
Over write contain would be the best and safe way.
Yes, you need passwd group and related shadow files to make things working.

Good Luck...!
NJ