restoring user accounts after an upgrade/reinstall?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Tom Weniger wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-04-12 at 05:54 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   any thoughts on whether this technique should still work?  i'll find
> > out in an hour or two, i suspect, it would just be nice to have some
> > advance warning if there are some surprises in store.
> >
> > rday
> >
> > p.s.  i'm configuring selinux for "warning" on the new system.  if i
> > enabled it, would that be an issue here for some reason?
> >
> Greetings Robert,
>
> I think the technique would still work. I have had no problems on my
> small NFS home network. I am running with SELinux enabled (targeted).
> The only variation I have used is updating the clients via NFS install
> and the server last. My network is small enough that I can update
> the /etc files by hand from a checklist. I hope the install goes well.

seemed to work fine.  my only concern was that, traditionally, i'd
just restore the previous account info in the /etc files.  i just
never know when a new release might introduce extra authentication
files somewhere that i've never heard of.

rday