Restore passwords from backup in new install

[Jerry A!]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:22:58AM -0200, romildo at uber.com.br wrote:
: Hello.
: 
: I want to do a fresh install of Fedora Core 1, as I
: have been doing with each Red Hat Linux since version
: 3.0.3 in my home computer.
: 
: But now that I have more users in the machine, I am
: wondering if there is a way to do a fresh install and
: afterwards restore user passwords from a backup of
: the old Red Hat Linux 9 install. This way users
: will not have to set its password again on first
: login.

Merge in the appropriate user & group entries from your backup into
/etc/passwd /etc/shadow and /etc/group (for user, password and group
information respectively).

Do not just overwrite the new files w/the backups.  You run the risk of
removing new system accts that may have been added in the new version
and are necessary for the correct functioninig of a program.

        --Jerry

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