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Michael A. Peters wrote:
| On 01/27/2005 07:44:33 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: | |> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:15:24PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: |> > http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/archiveinstall.html |> > I believe most Fedora users would find such an installation option |> > very helpful since you could be certain to retain the key |> configuration |> > settings for Linux and the user accounts while making certain that |> > the major system directories were effectively given a clean |> install. |> |> You can already get 80% of this by just keeping /home on a separate |> partition and choosing to not reformat it during the install. | | | Which is what I do - and it works well. | I rpm -qa |sort > rpms.old | | copy my old passwd, shadow, group files | ssh keys | | then I can clean install, restore stuff, look to see what I had that | I no longer do - nice clean system with my user stuff left alone.
In the office, even this is simple by using an LDAP server. Anaconda will allow you to forgo the setup of a user account and tell it to use LDAP. System comes up ready to use.
Haven't found a way around the SSH keys yet, but when I have time will probably look to LDAP for that also. If I am upgrading the LDAP server, just slapcat the ldap server first, then slapadd after install. All user accounts will come right back to life.
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