Re: [opensuse] Upgrading system and conserving users

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 09:49 +0200, Jean-François Simon wrote:

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 19:54 +0200, meister@netz00.com wrote:

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Am Mittwoch 19 Oktober 2005 18:41 schrieb Jean-François Simon :

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I want to upgrade my pc running suse 9.1 while keeping the user accounts. By upgrading I mean a fresh install on the / partition and keeping the user partition. just keep /etc/passwd. /etc/shadow and homes ;-)

Hi,

STOP! What about /etc/group? And if you just copy the old passwd file, you will loose all changed system users!

Can I just copy and paste the regular users in the old /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group to the new one ?

I've just done the upgrade. Everything went fine. I copy the users from the old /etc/passwd to the new. Idem with shadow and group. I keep the same encryption, i.e. blowfish. Thank you all for the help. Jean-François