Well if the machine is a new build you could actually cut and paste the
users entries from the following files and paste them into the
respective ones on the new machine. But you would still have to create
the necessary home directories to go with the accounts.

passwd
shadow
group
gshadow

Then create the home directories and you are off and running. If the
machine is not a new build it could be much more complicated as you
could have accounts already on the machine that use the same uid's and
gids which is a no no.

Cheers,

Davidm

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 09:45, Kyle Faber wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 	I am trying to determine the best way to effectively copy the /etc/passwd 
> file from one machine to another.  I have read that you can not do this by 
> merely copying the associated files, but is there some method I can use to 
> accomplish this idea?
> 
> THANKS!
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