environments? Even though you have a good point that unless you have a good understanding of wat you're doing in the shadow file, you could break things, i think it's easier to understand how to restore files than to create scripts to extract user information, recreate users, create new passwords, securely transmit to users new passwords , and recreate environments.
Thats true Ben. I think a good backup routine is really the only way to go. The whole process that was asked about seems a little tedious. I guess my point should have been not to mess with the files but just backup the filesystems :)
A full system backup is a good idea, and highly recommended. But, it's not always practical. With the size of hard drives today it can be difficult and expensive to maintain full tape backups of systems that have 200+ gb. Using a second hard drive for backup seems to be more common. So, an understanding of what information on your system needs to be restored in this situation is a good idea. On a typical redhat system you'll do pretty well to backup /etc/*, /home/*, /var/*, and /usr/local/* (if needed).
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