Am So, den 21.11.2004 schrieb Øyvind Lode um 12:04: > 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. > 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? > something tells me that this won't work since i use md5 encrypted passwords > (shadow)... > > øyvind It works perfectly. Just be aware to only get those accounts from the backuped password/group files which are user accounts. Don't simply copy the old files in total over the ones on the new system. The md5 encryption is no problem. As said, moving the account data with these files does what you want. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp Serendipity 19:00:52 up 1 day, 13:48, load average: 0.27, 0.37, 0.32
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