[K12OSN] Upgrading to K12LTSP 4.1.0 - User accounts and settings

Krsnendu krsnendu at orcon.net.nz
Mon Aug 30 13:33:29 UTC 2004


Yes, you'll need to save /home & when you do the re-install, create a
separate partiion for /home.  That way you can just leave it in place
for the next upgrade.  I'm not sure why the default isn't to create a
separate /home.
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	Krsnendu replies:

How do I setup the separate partition when installing K12LTSP 4.1?
I know there is a section of the install for partitions, but I am not
sure how much space to leave for each partition and how to link /home to
its own partition. 

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Unless you want to re-create the accounts (and paswords), you'll want
to save those too.  it's a good idea to backup all of /etc/, but
you'll probably need:

     passwd 
     group
     shadow

It's not quite as easy as that, because the new version will have some
different system accounts, so you'll need to either add just the users
>=500 to the new files or figure out which system accounts have been
added/deleted or changed.
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	Krsnendu replies:

I don't understand this paragraph. What does users >=500 mean?
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 06:46:37 -0700, Krsnendu <krsnendu at orcon.net.nz>
wrote:
> I have a small network 5 clients 11 users running K12LTSP 4.0.4 Now I
> have the K12LTSP CDS in front of me. I want to do a fresh install but
I
> want to keep users settings, (desktop picutures taskbar etc) as well
as
> their files. How do I do that? Do I just copy the whole home directory
> to another computer on the network and when I have finished copy it
back
> again, or is their more to it than that? Do I have to recreate all the
> users? Or is there a file containing this info that I can just export
> and import?
 






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