copying user account?

vu pham vu at sivell.com
Fri Aug 1 11:00:10 PDT 2008


peter360 wrote:
> I have two linux hosts A and B.  I created an account for user X on A, and X
> has logged into A to change his password.  Now I am setting up host B.  How
> can I replicate the account info of user X from A to B, so that X can log
> into B using the same password he uses to log into A?  Thanks.

I would create user X on B and copy  X's password in /etc/shadow in host 
A to /etc/shadow in host B.

Vu



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