At 2:21 PM -0700 6/4/07, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>At 11:39 AM -0700 6/4/07, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>I need to move my mail server and apache to another computer that
>>>will run F7. How do I backup my users and keep their passwords and
>>>mail files? Shoud I backup /home? Where are the user passwords
>>>stored?
>>
>>User account info is stored in:
>>
>> /etc/passwd
>> /etc/shadow
>> /etc/group
>> /etc/gshadow
>>
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>Thanks very much. What are the passwd- and group- directories? Are
>they some sort of backup?
As "ls -l /etc/{passwd,shadow,group,gshadow}" will show you, they are
files. Feel free to read their manpages: "man 5 passwd shadow group
gshadow".
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