Backup user accounts?

Jorge Luis Vivas jlvivas at intercable.net.ve
Thu Sep 30 14:44:41 UTC 2004


..And donĀ“t forget to backup your important files in /home


> just save your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file. You could then reimport
> (copy-paste) those users you created in fc to ubuntu.
> 
> fb.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 05:18 +0200, S.B wrote:
> 
>>I'm currently running Fedora Core 2, but I want to try Ubuntu. I want to 
>>wipe the entire harddrive, but I need to keep all the accounts from the 
>>FC2 install (with password).
>>
>>Can this be done? I have tried googling. without any results.
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>





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