Migrate user accounts / data from old Linux server to new Linux server

Migrating user accounts is not an easy task especially if you are a new
admin. You need to make sure that file ownership, and password and
group membership remains the same.




The article does a good job of explaining the steps required to migrate from old Linux/UNIX server to news fresh
installation. It's a short and sweet tutorial and worth a read,
especially for new admins to handle rescuing a dying server job.




You can migrate users from old Linux server to new Linux sever with standard commands such as tar, awk, scp and others. This is also useful if you are using old Linux distribution such as Redhat 9 or Debian 2.x.