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On 12-Jul-2002/09:27 -0400, "Reuben D. Budiardja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>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.
>
>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?
Copy these to the new machine:
/etc/passwd
/etc/group
/etc/shadow
Make a tarball of /home/* and make sure that /home on the new machine is a
separate partition. I like to put /usr/local on it's own partition too,
for similar reasons.
You find it easiest to make a tarball of /etc/* for all the settings
there. When the new machine is setup, untar the tarball and copy over or
edit the config files as necessary.
Tony
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