On Mar 27, Andy
Hi to all,
I know it is not security related topic, but I don't want to subscribe to another thread. I want to ask for a backup tool for suse 10. For the configuration files and mailserver I am using rsync to backup the files. How can I backup the user list and passwords... and recover them easy in case of disaster??
Hi Andy, First, please fix your mail client to insert line breaks after ~72 characters. I see that you are using Outlook Express which is rather dangerous to use, apart from being non-compliant to standards in several ways. It is easily replaced by the free and more feature-rich Mozilla Thunderbird Mail (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/). Second, the answer to your question is an easy one. The users and passwords are kept in the file /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. But instead of saving only those two (with tar), I would backup the whole /etc directory, e.g. # tar czvf /data/backup/etc.tar.gz /etc Markus -- __________________ /"\ Markus Gaugusch \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign markus(at)gaugusch.at X Against HTML Mail / \