From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 8:32:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icarus.slightlystrange.org (icarus.slightlystrange.org [62.190.193.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318DB37B419 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:32:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from danielby by icarus.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16sRD8-0007Il-00 for ; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:32:42 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 17:32:42 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: users Message-ID: <20020402163241.GE27119@icarus.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:10:51PM +0000, Don Seeger wrote: > I wish to back up my users (excluding root). Can I tar my home folder for > my users and backup up the master.passwd and that is it. Is it more > complicated than that. I don't think it needs to be more complicated - but I would feel inclined to make backups of /etc/passwd and /etc/group as well (and login.conf, login.access, if you have changed them from the default). But of course, there will be almost as many approaches as there are FreeBSD users, so whatever works for you is surely the best bet! Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message