Hi all, I'm having to reinstall my system due to operator error. oops. Anyway, I have an intact /home directory that has important files on it I would like to leave intact during the install. So I simply chose to not format that partition and went through the install as usual. When it came up, I transfered backup copies to /etc of group, passwd, shadow, and gshadow so that I wouldn't have to remake all the groups and everything else by hand. Now, I can't log into my system as any user, it gives me a permission denied error (ie bashrc - access denied) Hence, none of my other services work correctly either since nothing authenticates like it should. I went through user drake and removed myself as a user and readded myself just to see if that would fix it but it didn't. I've been at this for far too long now and am running out of ideas. Can someone please help me fix this. I checked all the permissions on the directories and everything seems identical to the way it was before. At this point, I'm getting all kinds of weird errors so I'm just going to go through and reinstall once more and see if I can get it right. If someone would be so kind though, what is the proper procedure for reinstalling a system while leaving your /home directory intact? Also, how do I restore my user and group settings from backups if neccessary?
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