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From: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Saving user accounts on reinstall
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:27:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <015c01c405eb$17ae0330$530a0a0a@rutgersinsurance.com> (raw)

I am looking to reinstall an email server.  I want to keep my user accounts
and passwords and transfer them to the new server.  Is it as easy as copying
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and the /var/spool/mail directory?

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com


             reply	other threads:[~2004-03-09 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-09 15:27 Adam Lang [this message]
2004-03-09 15:51 ` Saving user accounts on reinstall Matías López Bergero
2004-03-09 16:18   ` Hal Wigoda
2004-03-09 16:46     ` Jens Knoell
2004-03-10  7:30 ` Keith Morse
2004-03-10  7:45   ` Andrew Kelly
2004-03-10 14:02   ` Adam Lang
2004-03-11 23:09     ` Keith Morse

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