Passwd & group file

[rajeshk]

Hi,
I took the backup copy of passwd file,group file and home directory tar file from old system HP-UX 11.00.
Now i need to use the same users/password and home directories which they already used. Can i replace the current one to old which i took backup. Does it face any problem. But when i use untar the home directories it shows the UID & GID somes numbers.

How to proceed on this?
Help me.

Thx
K.Rajesh

[John Payne_2]

If the users can get in and the only problem is that they do not own their own home directory, might I suggest that you just chown -R on the ones that need it? (And be done with it...)

It should not have done that if everythings really happy. Do most of the gid's and uid's match up?

John

[T G Manikandan]

Rajesh,

when you untar the home dir files it will show the UID and GID as numbers as these files on the source system has a owner of UID (that value) and group with GID (that number value).
If you want to copy the passwd and group files from the source machine.
Copy /etc/passwd into /tmp on the source system.
vi /tmp/passwd and remove all the system users root,sys,adm,etc.
Then just ftp it to the target machine.
Take a backup of the existing passwd file and then just append this file to the existing passwd file.
Do the same to /etc/group

Make sure that you open a session for root and keep that alive until everything works successfully.

Thanks