At 11:19 09/29/2005 -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: >begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:55:02AM -0700: >> Stewart Stremler wrote: >[snip] >> >/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, perhaps? >> > >> >/etc/ssh_config is a favorite as well. >> >> Dumping these (from rh9) on top of what fc3 creates won't mess things up? > >I would be immensely suprised if /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow changed >formats; they might have different UIDs, however, so you might want >to manually merge in changes. > >/etc/ssh_config is where the system keys reside -- copy over at least >those (otherwise all the clients that have logged in to this box before >will complain of a man-in-the-middle attack), and then walk through the >new configuration file making sure important defaults (e.g. "ForwardX11 yes") >are preserved. > >Of course, if the ssh version hasn't changed, you ought to be able to >copy over the whole ssh_config directory. > [snip]
After all the rants I see from Stewart about "all the world is X" and remarks about putting stuff in "non-standard" places, I need to point out that Redhat/Fedora keeps its system keys in /etc/ssh/ as separate files, one for dsa and another for rsa. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
