[opensuse] 11.2: Importing users from previous installation
Hi all, has the feature to import users from already existing /home during installation been dropped? Regards ......Volker -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Volker wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Volker,
has the feature to import users from already existing /home during installation been dropped?
I performed a new install on my EeePC, which had openSUSE 11.1 on it, and It allowed me to keep the previous users on the new openSUSE 11.2 install.
Regards ......Volker
-- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/ Veni, vidi, Linux! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 10 December 2009 16:29:34 Rui Santos wrote:
Volker wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Volker,
has the feature to import users from already existing /home during installation been dropped?
I performed a new install on my EeePC, which had openSUSE 11.1 on it, and It allowed me to keep the previous users on the new openSUSE 11.2 install.
Hi Rui, do you remember at which point in the installation procedere the option came up? I exspected it to be somewhere around the step of first user creation, didn't find it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 12/11/2009 12:05 AM, Volker wrote:
Hi Rui,
do you remember at which point in the installation procedere the option came up?
I exspected it to be somewhere around the step of first user creation, didn't find it.
If you use the original username, it will prompt to ask you weather to import this user. It's not import anyway. The system creats a new user with a username and need a home folder(defaluts to username), if this already exists, you can use that one. You can always do this even after installation. Don't konw yast can handle this or do some chmod, chown as root. If you mean importing user settings from other OSs(like Ubuntu), don't know if OpenSUSE has this feature. Hope this would be helpful. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Volker wrote:
On Thursday 10 December 2009 16:29:34 Rui Santos wrote:
Volker wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Volker,
has the feature to import users from already existing /home during installation been dropped?
I performed a new install on my EeePC, which had openSUSE 11.1 on it, and It allowed me to keep the previous users on the new openSUSE 11.2 install.
Hi Rui,
do you remember at which point in the installation procedere the option came up?
Yes, It prompts on the area where you are able to select the authentication options ( /etc/passwd, ldap, etc.. ). However, I installed another laptop today and the option to "use old users" ( do not remember the correct name ) was not shown. There is a difference between the two setups: My EeePC has /home on a separate partition which I did not format. I wonder if this is catch... Probably someone else here can enlighten us lit bit more...
I exspected it to be somewhere around the step of first user creation, didn't find it.
-- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/ Veni, vidi, Linux! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 12/11/2009 03:05 PM, Rui Santos pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Volker wrote:
On Thursday 10 December 2009 16:29:34 Rui Santos wrote:
Volker wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Volker,
has the feature to import users from already existing /home during installation been dropped?
I performed a new install on my EeePC, which had openSUSE 11.1 on it, and It allowed me to keep the previous users on the new openSUSE 11.2 install.
Hi Rui,
do you remember at which point in the installation procedere the option came up?
Yes, It prompts on the area where you are able to select the authentication options ( /etc/passwd, ldap, etc.. ). However, I installed another laptop today and the option to "use old users" ( do not remember the correct name ) was not shown. There is a difference between the two setups: My EeePC has /home on a separate partition which I did not format. I wonder if this is catch...
Probably someone else here can enlighten us lit bit more...
I exspected it to be somewhere around the step of first user creation, didn't find it.
They must be imported from /etc/passwd not /home. Whatever is in /home are just directories that could belong to anyone. If you format your root directory (/) you will destroy the info needed to automatically create your users. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 11 December 2009 21:12:44 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 12/11/2009 03:05 PM, Rui Santos pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Volker wrote:
On Thursday 10 December 2009 16:29:34 Rui Santos wrote:
Volker wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Volker,
has the feature to import users from already existing /home during installation been dropped?
I performed a new install on my EeePC, which had openSUSE 11.1 on it, and It allowed me to keep the previous users on the new openSUSE 11.2 install.
Hi Rui,
do you remember at which point in the installation procedere the option came up?
Yes, It prompts on the area where you are able to select the authentication options ( /etc/passwd, ldap, etc.. ). However, I installed another laptop today and the option to "use old users" ( do not remember the correct name ) was not shown. There is a difference between the two setups: My EeePC has /home on a separate partition which I did not format. I wonder if this is catch...
Probably someone else here can enlighten us lit bit more...
I exspected it to be somewhere around the step of first user creation, didn't find it.
They must be imported from /etc/passwd not /home. Whatever is in /home are just directories that could belong to anyone. If you format your root directory (/) you will destroy the info needed to automatically create your users.
Correct me if i'm wrong. But wasn't there a option somewhere in the 10.3/11.0/11.1 to exactly do that: Import users by home-dir name and userid? Formating my root partition and keeping /home is my favorite way of updating opensuse. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 11 December 2009 21:12:44 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 12/11/2009 03:05 PM, Rui Santos pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Volker wrote:
On Thursday 10 December 2009 16:29:34 Rui Santos wrote:
Volker wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Volker,
has the feature to import users from already existing /home during installation been dropped?
I performed a new install on my EeePC, which had openSUSE 11.1 on it, and It allowed me to keep the previous users on the new openSUSE 11.2 install.
Hi Rui,
do you remember at which point in the installation procedere the option came up?
Yes, It prompts on the area where you are able to select the authentication options ( /etc/passwd, ldap, etc.. ). However, I installed another laptop today and the option to "use old users" ( do not remember the correct name ) was not shown. There is a difference between the two setups: My EeePC has /home on a separate partition which I did not format. I wonder if this is catch...
Probably someone else here can enlighten us lit bit more...
I exspected it to be somewhere around the step of first user creation, didn't find it.
They must be imported from /etc/passwd not /home. Whatever is in /home are just directories that could belong to anyone. If you format your root directory (/) you will destroy the info needed to automatically create your users.
I just gave it a shot with the 11.1: During the install process, where you choose the User Authenfication Method, there is a checkbox labled 'Read user data from a previous installation'. Works like a charm, even from an encrypted /home. On the 11.2 there is no such option. So this feature seems to have been silently dropped. To my very regret, i have to say. It was one of the more usefull features. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 12/16/2009 06:41 AM, Volker pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Friday 11 December 2009 21:12:44 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 12/11/2009 03:05 PM, Rui Santos pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Volker wrote:
On Thursday 10 December 2009 16:29:34 Rui Santos wrote:
Volker wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Volker,
has the feature to import users from already existing /home during installation been dropped?
I performed a new install on my EeePC, which had openSUSE 11.1 on it, and It allowed me to keep the previous users on the new openSUSE 11.2 install.
Hi Rui,
do you remember at which point in the installation procedere the option came up?
Yes, It prompts on the area where you are able to select the authentication options ( /etc/passwd, ldap, etc.. ). However, I installed another laptop today and the option to "use old users" ( do not remember the correct name ) was not shown. There is a difference between the two setups: My EeePC has /home on a separate partition which I did not format. I wonder if this is catch...
Probably someone else here can enlighten us lit bit more...
I exspected it to be somewhere around the step of first user creation, didn't find it.
They must be imported from /etc/passwd not /home. Whatever is in /home are just directories that could belong to anyone. If you format your root directory (/) you will destroy the info needed to automatically create your users.
I just gave it a shot with the 11.1:
During the install process, where you choose the User Authenfication Method, there is a checkbox labled 'Read user data from a previous installation'. Works like a charm, even from an encrypted /home.
Because it is reading from /etc/passwd _before_ formatting the / partition. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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