At 2:21 PM -0700 6/4/07, Knute Johnson wrote:
>At 11:39 AM -0700 6/4/07, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>I need to move my mail server and apache to another computer that
>>will run F7. How do I backup my users and keep their passwords and
>>mail files? Shoud I backup /home? Where are the user passwords
>>stored?
>
>User account info is stored in:
>
> /etc/passwd
> /etc/shadow
> /etc/group
> /etc/gshadow
>
...
Thanks very much. What are the passwd- and group- directories? Are
they some sort of backup?
As "ls -l /etc/{passwd,shadow,group,gshadow}" will show you, they are
files. Feel free to read their manpages: "man 5 passwd shadow group
gshadow".
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