Predefined user accounts on a new server

Hi,
i'd like to know how can i "copy" an existing users definition (/etc/passwd and /home) from a production server to a new test server in such a way that user's passwords remain as now.
We are using shadow passwords...
thanks!!

You could do it in a finish script with Jumpstart. Make sure you cope both the /etc/passwd and the /etc/shadow file for it.
Also, you'd be copying the files off the NFS mount to /a/etc/ and not /etc (because the mini-root mounts the jumpstart client's local disks under /a during the install).

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