On 12/10/2011 10:29 AM, johnc0...@verizon.net wrote:
> I maintain a server with a number of users, and just recently upgraded to
>
> Fedora 16 from Fedora 11. I did a clean install so all of the users now
> have
>
> to reset their passwords. The question I have is: what is the preferred
> method
>
> of managing user passwords so that their passwords will carry over to
> the new
>
> installation? Should I set up a NIS server on the machine? Would that
> maintain
>
> the passwords across the upgrades?
>
You could - or you could use LDAP (preferred but more complicated) or
the simplest is you could keep the user parts of
/etc/password
shadow
group
gshadow
and edit them back into the fresh install files.
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