Re: Saving user accounts on reinstall

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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Adam Lang wrote:

> I am looking to reinstall an email server.  I want to keep my user accounts
> and passwords and transfer them to the new server.  Is it as easy as copying
> /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and the /var/spool/mail directory?


Having just done this I'd include /etc/group and /etc/gshadow and don't 
forget to trim the system accounts from the old files before adding to the 
new ones.

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