Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Alma J Wetzker:
> Michael Hipp <Michael at Hipp.com> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:23:07 -0500
> >Net Llama! wrote:
> >
> >>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
> >
> >So if I backup the files mentioned above and by Keith Morse, the 
> >accounts will be there just as they were before and won't have to be 
> >re-entered?
> 
> That should keep all your data.  Owner information may be a problem with 
> the /home stuff depending in how you do it (a real backup that preserves 
> owner/group data as opposed to a cp from a backup CD for instance.).  I 
> think the accounts need to exist for the data to keep the owners.

The files and directories will retain the UIDs and GIDs, so when the
proper password and group files are restored, the UIDs and GIDs will
map to the appropriate names.

Kurt
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