From: Andrew Kelly <akelly@transparency.org>
To: "linux-admin@vger.kernel.org" <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Saving user accounts on reinstall
Date: 10 Mar 2004 08:45:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1078904748.4310.3.camel@hermes.at.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403092328070.9849-100000@mail.mpcu.com>
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 08:30, Keith Morse wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Adam Lang wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
>
> Having just done this I'd include /etc/group and /etc/gshadow and don't
> forget to trim the system accounts from the old files before adding to the
> new ones.
And, if any of your "old" users have an exotic shell, don't forget to
twiddle /etc/shells.
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-10 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-09 15:27 Saving user accounts on reinstall Adam Lang
2004-03-09 15:51 ` 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 [this message]
2004-03-10 14:02 ` Adam Lang
2004-03-11 23:09 ` Keith Morse
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