<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Thank you very much Alan... I will follow your suggestions... I think "chown -R" will be the solution... as you can see I am making elementary questions... I can't imagine what will it be to migrate 100+ users to a new Server. <blockquote cite="mid:jpcpb6$kd6$1@dough.gmane.org" type="cite"> When a user is created, they are assigned (by default) a user id and a group id. These are numbers. On Ubuntu they start at 1000 and go up. Go into a user's home dir and type ls -n (It will list contents showing user and group IDs rather than names.) You have two choices as far as I can see: * create the users in whatever order you like and simply "chown" the data you copy over for them to the new user (this will change the id to whatever it is for say user fred). * look in /etc/passwd, and optionally /etc/group, and get the id numbers for each user and their group. Then create the users on your new machine specifying their old group and user ids (obviously checking that there are no conflicts with whatever is already present on your new system first). See "man adduser" and/or "man useradd" for more details on the options. HTH Al </blockquote> <div class="moz-signature">-- <meta charset="utf-8"> <title></title> Carlos Ronceros Consultant | Fossbox <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.fossbox.org.uk">www.fossbox.org.uk</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:carlos@fossbox.org.uk">carlos@fossbox.org.uk</a> Tel: 020 7481 8479 Mob: 074 32137731 46 Matilda House St Katharines Way London E1W 1LG </div> </body> </html>