Restoring passwd and shadow files

Kevin Old kevinold at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 00:49:04 UTC 2004


On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:45:03 -0300, Patrick Boutilier
<boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca> wrote:
> You don't need the files that end with ~ and the .lock files. Also you
> should copy /etc/group

Thanks Patrick.  Is a reboot required?  I plan on logging into one
server as root, copying the files over and then logging in a one of
the users from the old server to see if it works...that sound like the
way to do it?

Thanks,
Kevin
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Kevin Old
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