How to preserve users in new install?

[Randy Kelsoe]

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.
>

Look at:

    ftp://people.redhat.com/ckloiber/migrate_users.sh

It should do exactly what you want.