Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > Hi, > I am going to do a fresh install of RH. 7.3 on one of our machine here, > that has RH 5.1. However, there are many users in that machine, and I > don't want to have to re-create every users, plus I am not the original > admin of the machine, so I don't know every users there.
If you grab the passwd, shadow and group files, that'll list them all. Now, I obviously don't know if you have any custom applications that may list users differently. Best bet: tar up the entire /etc directory. Also, don't forget about other config files stored outside of /etc (e.g. - /usr/local/apache or /usr/local/named, if you use those). > So my question is, is there anyway I can keep all the users and passwd > so that after the upgrade, the users can still be there? The only think > came to my mind is to backup /etc/passwd. Will that work? or am I > missing something? You're missing: /etc/shadow /etc/group > Another think is, since the /home directory is in the root partition, I > have to basically destroy it during the upgrade. So I scp-ed the /home > directory to another machine that has 7.1. I notice that it says > something about "executing scp1 compatibility". The copied files are > then slightly larger than the original. I am not sure if this will cause > any problem or corrup something. Perhaps you could tar it up first? > So, any advice in those matters would be appreciated. Thanks in advance > for any help. See above. -- Ed Marczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
