On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 12:04 +0100, Øyvind Lode wrote: > hi all > > i'm planning to reinstall my fedora server. > i'm now running fc1 on this server and i'm gonna delete that installation > and install fc3. > > i have taken backup of all important config files like httpd.conf, > vsftpd.conf etc. > i have also backed up all user data in /home to a tar.bz2 file. > > the only thing i miss is the user accounts... > > if i bakup /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /etc/gshadow and after > installing fc3 copies these files to the new server will i then have all the > users (with their passwords) on the new server? > > i will also restore the tar.bz2 file including all the user data. > > something tells me that this won't work since i use md5 encrypted passwords > (shadow)... > > øyvind > That has worked for me in the past. It should as long as you restore the password files before you restore the /home directory. Just as a note for future reference..... If you have /home on its own partition then this process will be less painful in the future. >
