[NBLUG/talk] Moving permissions

[Todd Cary]

Dustin -

Another way to put it is "what would one have to put on a backup DVD so 
that the home directory could be copied back if the system were to 
crash, requiring a new installation of Linux.

Todd

Dustin Mollo wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 08:36:16AM -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>What happens if the "owners" are not on the new machine?  I would like 
>>to avoid the tedious task of creating users and groups on the new box.
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>you could simply copy and paste the appropriate lines from the passwd,
>group, shadow and gshadow files from the 'old' box to the 'new' box.  if you
>don't, then all the directories and files will be owned by just uid's and
>gid's (ie, no magic resolving to usernames and groupnames.)  if the
>permissions are not such that people in the 'other' category in the
>permissions bits can access the files and groups, then they will be
>unaccessable by anyone on the 'new' box.
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>to sum up, either way, you need to somehow create the users and groups on
>the 'new' box.
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>-dustin
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