On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:59:18PM +0200, Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users
> ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on
> it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you please
> advise
"Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote:
>
> > I was only unsure how to proceed with the users backup.
>
> If users are the only thing you wish to back up:
>
> /home
> /etc/group
> /etc/master.passwd
He's running an ssh server, so he's going to
You might as well save the whole /etc, you will probably need other conf
files and surely you would like to have /etc/passwd and /etc/group
not passwd - is generated from master.passwd
but group - yes, sorry i missed it.
In fact, I would also backup the whole /usr/local/etc to get all the
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Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote:
I was only unsure how to proceed with the users backup.
If users are the only thing you wish to back up:
/home
/etc/group
/etc/master.passwd
You can backup system files (/etc, /usr/local/etc, /var) if you want but
that's another topic.
Some hints:
1. Check if
On Jan 27, 2008 6:58 PM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users
> > >> ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall
Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users
> >> ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on
> >> it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Hello,
I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users
ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on
it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you please
advise me how to back them up?
/home/*
/etc/master.passwd
/
Hello,
I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users
ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on
it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you please
advise me how to back them up?
/home/*
/etc/master.passwd
/var/cron/tabs/*
/var/mail/
