Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote:
> I have a server box that I want to upgrade to RH9 while doing a major
> disk upgrade. (RH8 just has some instabilities I can't tolerate.)
>
> This box has quite a few accounts defined on it. Is there any way to
> "cheat" and just copy over /etc/passwd to make the accounts magically
> re-appear? Is there anything else besides /etc/shadow that I'd need?

Why would you need to cheat?  Are you using the 'upgrade' optoin from the
RH9 Installer, or do you mean, reload the box fresh with RH9?  If you're
reloading, then you need to backup all of /home and backup /etc/passwd,
/etc/group & /etc/shadow

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