Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 21:52:53 -0400
> 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.

<Clueless Mode>
I thought that if I cp'd stuff to a CDR that the owner changed to who 
cp'd the files.  I haven't tried gziping them and uzgziping but I 
thought the owner was the one who did the restore.  (I vaguely remember 
an option on *zip to preserve owner, but I never used it.)  I know with 
tar or cpio ownership can be preserved.

Is the owner preserved now regardless of how the restore is done?
</Clueless Mode>

     -- Alma