Password files

[WonderG914]

I am upgrading my Redhat 8.0 to Fedora on different machines. I would like to move my existing password files from the old system to the new system. Can this be done, and how? Is this possible for my samba password file, and how is it done? Thanks.

[serz]

/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are the files you would need to backup. As for the samba config I'm not sure, I think it's smb.conf. Look for it.

[Loki3]

In gentoo all the samba configuration files including the samba password file is under /etc/samba/. I don't know if Fedora is the same but if so you could just copy the directory over.

[WonderG914]

The password files moved easily and seem to be working, but now mysql won't start. I am getting the error:

"chown mysql.mysql : invalid user"

This only happed after I moved the password files. What do I need to do to correct this? Thanks.