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Re: [cobalt-users] raq backup question



On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, William E. Moore wrote:

> I need to move some sites from one Raq4 to Another Raq4.
> Since I do not know all of the users passwords on the sites,  if I execute 
> the backup program and then upload it to the new server and run 
> restore,  will it correctly install the site and the users on the new server ?

I haven't use the backup utility, etc. but user's passwords are in the
/etc/shadow file.  To be safe, make a copy of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
file.  You can paste/copy from one /etc/shadow file to another and it'll
preserve the password.

Regards,


- Mike