How to preserve users in new install?

Kent Emia kent-cdr at greendot.com.ph
Mon May 31 04:54:51 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 10:57, Christopher Stone wrote:
> OT: but why do you want to do a fresh install instead of just upgrading?

maybe he/she will shift to another distro which is one of my plans ..
can these be possible? especially if our server is using samba as our
PDC machine.. can i store the setup?

> 
> On Sun, 30 May 2004 23:53:54 -0300, romildo at uber.com.br
> <romildo at uber.com.br> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Currently I have Fedora Core 1 installed in my computer,
> > and I want to install Fedora Core 2. The problem isi
> > that I want to keep the same users that there is now.
> > Is there a way of backing up what users exists now and
> > their private data, and restore them after installation?
> > 
> > Note that I do not want an upgrade, but a new install
> > of the OS.
> > 
> > Is it enough to backup /etc/{group,passwd,shadow} and
> > /home/* before installation, and restore them afterwards?
> > Will the users will be back and functional after that?
> > 
> > Romildo
> > 
> > 
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