Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
I'm less than expert here ;) but wouldn't it suffice to make
archival
copies of /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, (maybe /etc/group) and /home, and
when you copy them to the newly installed system, just take care to
*NOT* copy any of the /home/*/.[a-zA-Z0-9]* files??? You would still
have the archival copy for reference when editing the new ones...
And for multiple user accounts where the users do some of their own
configuring, you could copy them, then rename them to .OLD${dotfile}
so that the users would still have access to them as a reference in
getting back half remembered configurations.
That would be one way of doing it, but I always want to retain my user
settings as they slowly evolve over time and would take a very long time to
get back.
I use KDE, and keep most of my settings. This works fine on the whole, but
there are always a few things (such as custom menu entries in FC2) that
have to be deleted to make the new installation function correctly.
Jonathan