[K12OSN] Moving Home files to a new server
Carl Keil
carl at snarlnet.com
Mon Oct 8 04:45:52 UTC 2007
Hi Folks,
So, the big disaster happened. My K12LTSP hard drive died. I've got
everything backed up (thank you BackupPC), so I thought I was golden,
but I'm having a weird problem.
When I restore files from backup they are showing up "read only" in
people's directories. When I do a "ls -la /home/username" it is showing
that the files are owned by other users and other groups. A "chown -R
username:groupname /home/username" doesn't solve the problem.
I tried copying over all the 500+ /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow info from
the most recent backup but after that I couldn't even log in as
different users. Any suggestions for what I should do? I'd really like
to just set up new user accounts for everyone and then just copy over
selected files from backup for each user. This is a family installation
of K12LTSP, so there are only about 10 user accounts. I used "useradd"
on the new server to create everyone's account and I don't think I did
them in the same order as the original server. Should I delete everyone
and re-add them in the exact same order? I could do that based on
/etc/passwd from the backup?
Thanks a lot,
ck
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