Re: Backup?

[Tony Nelson]

At 2:21 PM -0700 6/4/07, Knute Johnson wrote:
> > At 11:39 AM -0700 6/4/07, Knute Johnson wrote:
> > > I need to move my mail server and apache to another computer that
> > > will run F7.  How do I backup my users and keep their passwords and
> > > mail files?  Shoud I backup /home?  Where are the user passwords
> > > stored?
> >
> > User account info is stored in:
> >
> > /etc/passwd
> >    /etc/shadow
> >    /etc/group
> >    /etc/gshadow

...
> Thanks very much.  What are the passwd- and group- directories?  Are
> they some sort of backup?

As "ls -l /etc/{passwd,shadow,group,gshadow}" will show you, they are
files.  Feel free to read their manpages:  "man 5 passwd shadow group
gshadow".