Dan wrote: > - Backup home and the files from /etc passwd, group, shadow and gshadow > ... > - merge the old passwd, group, shadow and gshadow with the new files > found in /etc You so far have three votes against doing this but I will vote *for* doing it. I think this is okay. It all depends upon what you have already and what you are trying to save. Backup all of /etc. I would make a good backup of /etc, /var/backups, and anything in /var in particular but /var whole if possible. MySQL stores files there for example and you didn't say what you had installed. But I have no idea what you meant by merging. I would only restore users that have files on the /home you are keeping. Any user above or equal to uid number 1000. That certainly makes sense. Let the packages install their own system users for themselves is easiest. Bob
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