On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:13:48PM -0500, Denny White wrote:
>
> I've been running a snapshot from several months back & got my
> new 4.1 cds finally. Uname shows OpenBSD 4.1 Generic#0. I want
> to keep my existing /home & /data partitions, delete all the
> rest, recreate them & finish the install. After I reboot, I was
> hoping I could copy over the old users from the old /etc/group
> into the new one, copy the old passwd over & run pwd_mkdb. Just
> want to know if I've reasoned it out correctly or not, if it is
> right if there's anything else I need to run to synchronize
> things, & so on. I've tried looking up that kind of scenario with
> google, in the mail archives & so forth & just don't seem to come
> up with what I need. The point of what I'm trying to accomplish
> is not to have to copy so much from the 2 aforementioned partitions
> to another drive & then copy it all back after recreating users.
> Thanks for any help.
Be careful: each release adds, and occasionally removes, new system
users. It's far safer to either update or reinstall, and you'll want to
look at www.openbsd.org/current.html for anything resembling an update.
Joachim
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