Restoring passwd and shadow files
James Wilkinson
james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Thu Aug 19 12:41:08 UTC 2004
Tsutomu wrote:
> rh9 to rh9 should work out fine...not too sure about fc1 to fc2
> however. there may be some changes in uids which i not too sure about
> you may want to dig a bit deeper in that particular situation.
find / -nogroup -o -nouser
(as root) will find any files which don't have a valid user or group.
The advice to leave system users alone is good.
If you combine the two, you should find all the problems.
James.
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