[NBLUG/talk] Moving permissions

Dustin Mollo dustin at sonic.net
Tue Jan 20 11:52:02 PST 2004


On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:27:41AM -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
> 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.

oh!

that's easy...assuming your backups include the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
files.  just make sure whatever tool you're using to make the copy of the
/home tree preserves permissions and ownership - recreating the users is a
simple matter of restoring /etc/passwd and /etc/group.

-dustin



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