On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 05:40:20PM -0700, Michael A. Peters 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. That's irrelevant. If it creates files in (say) /var as whatever user it picks at random, and then I copy my old password file over the new one, it will be All Br0ke. (And that's not even considering the annoyance of dealing with any *new* system users.) [...] > system accounts should not have home directories in /home anyway. I have no idea why you're all on about /home. > 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. See above. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 79 degrees Fahrenheit. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
