Hi All, I have suse 8.2 running as samba server, it has about 100 users from UID 500 to UID 604. Right now I'd like to reinstall it to suse 9.1. I notice since suse 9.0, UID start from 1000. What should I do so my users and samba users still can access reinstalled server without changing any password, directory and other stuff like printers ? What if I just backup /etc/passwd, /etc/samba/ and I put it back in reinstalled server ? regards, -- Arie Reynaldi Zanahar reymanx at gmail.com http://www.reynaldi.or.id
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 9:13 pm, Arie Reynaldi Z wrote:
Hi All,
I have suse 8.2 running as samba server, it has about 100 users from UID 500 to UID 604. Right now I'd like to reinstall it to suse 9.1. I notice since suse 9.0, UID start from 1000. What should I do so my users and samba users still can access reinstalled server without changing any password, directory and other stuff like printers ? What if I just backup /etc/passwd, /etc/samba/ and I put it back in reinstalled server ?
regards, Arie
Change the default during install of 9.1 to use the old range starting at UID 500. Otherwise this was discussed in the list when 9.1 came out. Don't remember the ways people handled large numbers of users like that though. Stan
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 19:13, Arie Reynaldi Z wrote:
Hi All,
I have suse 8.2 running as samba server, it has about 100 users from UID 500 to UID 604. Right now I'd like to reinstall it to suse 9.1. I notice since suse 9.0, UID start from 1000. What should I do so my users and samba users still can access reinstalled server without changing any password, directory and other stuff like printers ? What if I just backup /etc/passwd, /etc/samba/ and I put it back in reinstalled server ?
regards,
I believe useradd will do from konsole all you need do is create each user again and force the system to renumber. You can also do this in YAST. It will find their folders and prompt you for the update. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
I believe useradd will do from konsole all you need do is create each user again and force the system to renumber. You can also do this in YAST. It will find their folders and prompt you for the update. But this might cost me to regenerate all sambapassword right ? That's what I dont want to do. :) Maybe I just change UID to 1001 +.
-- Arie Reynaldi Zanahar reymanx at gmail.com http://www.reynaldi.or.id
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 02:22, Arie Reynaldi Z wrote:
I believe useradd will do from konsole all you need do is create each user again and force the system to renumber. You can also do this in YAST. It will find their folders and prompt you for the update. But this might cost me to regenerate all sambapassword right ? That's what I dont want to do. :) Maybe I just change UID to 1001 +.
Backup the password file and restore after the install. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
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Arie Reynaldi Z
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Carl William Spitzer IV
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Stan Glasoe