Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

[Keith Morse]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote:

> I have a server box that I want to upgrade to RH9 while doing a major 
> disk upgrade. (RH8 just has some instabilities I can't tolerate.)
> 
> This box has quite a few accounts defined on it. Is there any way to 
> "cheat" and just copy over /etc/passwd to make the accounts magically 
> re-appear? Is there anything else besides /etc/shadow that I'd need?


My minimum would be 

/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group
/etc/gshadow

/home

	and potentially

/var/spool/mail/