On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 07:31 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > I often upgrade by preserving /home and a few key config files but wiping > the system disk. Much faster than the anaconda upgrade option, with cleaner > results. But if I do that, and the UIDs used by packages at install time > change, there will be mis-owned files on the system. A system service should NOT have a home directory in /home so all of the UIG/GID in /home should be above 500. > > > > For machines that share data, IMHO the proper way is to put all accounts > > with distributed files in a UID management thing like LDAP or NIS. It > > As previously mentioned, that's not the right thing for system accounts. For > example, it doesn't help the above situation. system accounts should not have home directories in /home anyway. If someone packages a fedora or extras package that uses a system account and has a directory in /home that is a packaging bug. But really - just like you need to preserve your ssl keys, a sysadmin should preserve /etc/passwd and /etc/group. I never personally save /etc/shadow - I just use the saved /etc/passwd to recreate users keeping uid/gid the same. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
