Am Donnerstag 20 Oktober 2005 09:49 schrieb Jean-François Simon 
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> >>>> I want to upgrade my pc running suse 9.1 while keeping the
> >>>> user accounts. By upgrading I mean a fresh install on the /
> >>>> partition and
> >>>> keeping the user partition.
> >>> just keep /etc/passwd. /etc/shadow and homes ;-)
> > STOP! What about /etc/group?
> > And if you just copy the old passwd file, you will loose all
> > changed system users!
> Can I just copy and paste the regular users in the
> old /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group to the new one ?

Hi Jean-François,

only if you use the same method to crypt the passwords. Look in your 
old /etc/shadow and compare the password field to the one in the 
new /etc/shadow. If your old passwords use another encryption, you must 
change the method on 10.0 via YaST. This only works if you use 
"local(/etc/passwd)" for authentification.

-- mdc

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