Hello Stephen.

04 Jan 10 17:42, you wrote to me:

 RT>> Simply make a tar archive of your /opt directory copy it over to
 RT>> the new system.

 SW> What do you do with the usernames/passwords being in the system's
 SW> passwd file, and file permissions?

See no reason why those also cannot be moved, to the new system, or the 
relevant parts, copy/pasted into the new one, as required, but I never had 
many users, so simply re-created their accounts manually ... , a little extra 
tweaking might be required such as re-creating their accounts, then doing the 
copy/paste from the old file to the new - overwriting the newly created 
detail, so their accounts remain the to all intents and purposes unchanged.

Just be sure that you use the same hash scheme for the creation and maintenace 
of the pam files ...

Russell

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