Re: [cobalt-users] restore CD

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Joshua Kim wrote:

> Thanks Tony. The problems you encountered, I can deal with.
> But the question remains: how do I preserve user passwords?

save etc/passwd, /etc/shadow /etc/group
however, if you restore the sites an a different order the group ID's will
all be wrong and you will have to reorder them all....this will also
totally screw up old log files eg wtmp/utmp and probably lots of other
things as well....

if you only want the password part you can probably cut/paste the keys
from shadow...(you still have to recreate all the site/user config data if
you don't use something like the CMU to build a save file...)

Or you could just tell users it's time for their bi-annual password
change, it is a good idea to change passwords every once in a while you
know...silly people write them down on yellow sticky pads -/

gsh