migrating users

[Timothy Wilson <wilson@visi.com>]

Hey everyone,

Let's say I've got a server running some distribution of Linux and I'm going
to change to a different distro on that same box. I've got a separate /home
partition, so users' directories will be unaffected. Distro A and B might
have a different set of daemon "users" in /etc/passwd and may use different
standard UIDs and GIDs for users.

How can I make the users' accounts continue to work with their old passwords
after I reinstall the system? Using the same /etc/passwd file causes
problems because of the differences I mentioned above.

Is there a standard approach?

-Tim

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