Originally posted by: alamb200

Hi,

I am pretty much a newbie to some aspects of AIX so please can you make any explantions given readable by an idiot.

Basically my situation is this, I am helping to replace an AIX server at a customers site with a new one.

So far I have copied the passwd and group files from the old server to a different location on the new server and then used the cat command to merge the old and new paswd and group files to new files called passwdnew and groupnew.

I then edited these files to make sure that there were no duplicate entries and that the newer servers were the only system files left.

I then renamed the files on the new server and added the new ones renaming them as I did but when I tried to log on as root it would not let me. I had kept a second session open and so put everything back as was and was able to get back in again.

Can anyone help me to get this to work.

Thanks,

anthony
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Originally posted by: MarkTaylor

man mkuser, tab to the bottom and you will see a list of files that control user access .. my guess is that you did not merge /etc/security/passwd ..

ref:

Files

/usr/bin/mkuser
Contains the mkuser command.
/usr/lib/security/mkuser.default
Contains the default values for new users.
/etc/passwd
Contains the basic attributes of users.
/etc/security/user
Contains the extended attributes of users.
/etc/security/user.roles
Contains the administrative role attributes of users.
/etc/security/passwd
Contains password information.
/etc/security/limits
Defines resource quotas and limits for each user.
/etc/security/environ
Contains the environment attributes of users.
/etc/group
Contains the basic attributes of groups.
/etc/security/group
Contains the extended attributes of groups.
/etc/security/.ids
Contains standard and administrative user IDs and group IDs.
HTH
Mark Taylor
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Originally posted by: alamb200

Hi Mark,

I think you could be right I remerged the files and it works now.

Thanks for your reply,

Anthony
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