Ross Boylan wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > If I don't adduser then home directories won't be created, even though
> > > /etc/passwd will refer to them. I figured that would lead to
> > > problems.
> >
> > But you said you were restoring an old system and had backups of use
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Ross Boylan wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > > I suppose it would be safer to have a script read the old files and
> > > > do adduser/addgroup as appropriate, since that would assure the home
> > > > directories existed (and maybe do other stu
Ross Boylan wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > I suppose it would be safer to have a script read the old files and
> > > do adduser/addgroup as appropriate, since that would assure the home
> > > directories existed (and maybe do other stuff I'm not aware of).
> >
> > Safer how? It seems much more c
Thank you, Bob. As always you are very helpful. Followups below.
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Ross Boylan wrote:
> > It would be very handy if, while creating a new system, I could
> > replicate the uid and gid's of an old one--by which I mean replicate
> > the mapping
Ross Boylan wrote:
> It would be very handy if, while creating a new system, I could
> replicate the uid and gid's of an old one--by which I mean replicate
> the mapping of numbers to names. I want to restore the old system,
> and my backup system (bacula) uses numeric uid/gid only. My backups
>
It would be very handy if, while creating a new system, I could replicate the
uid and gid's of an old one--by which I mean replicate the mapping of numbers
to names. I want to restore the old system, and my backup system (bacula)
uses numeric uid/gid only. My backups have all the customized fi
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