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From: "Matías López Bergero" <mlopezb@udesa.edu.ar>
To: Adam Lang <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Saving user accounts on reinstall
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:51:28 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <404DE800.4020403@udesa.edu.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <015c01c405eb$17ae0330$530a0a0a@rutgersinsurance.com>

And the home dirs, aliases and "mta".config too :)
I had no problems doing so in that way.

Regards!
Matías.


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

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-09 15:51 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 [this message]
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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