[CLUE-Talk] user accounts

[Lynn Danielson]

Jeremiah Stanley wrote:
> 
> What is the best way to move user accounts (email/shell) to another
> machine? I am assuming that I can tar up their directories but how do I
> preserve their permissions, is that a switch in the tar command?

There is a preserve permissions switch for GNU tar:
 -p, --same-permission, --preserve-permissions 

If you don't want to bother with using the "chown -R" command on the
moved directories, you'll also want the users to have the same uid/gid
as on the old machine.

Lynn D.