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Posted: Dec. 22 2004,19:48 QUOTE
Can someone point me to the correct files to backup when adding an additional user and password to a frugal install? No luck searching....

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Posted: Dec. 23 2004,08:09 QUOTE
etc/group
etc/group~
etc/group.org
etc/passwd
etc/passwd~
etc/passwd.org
etc/shadow
etc/shadow~
etc/shadow.org

works for me.

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Posted: Dec. 23 2004,14:08 QUOTE
Great! Thanks henk1955!

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Posted: Dec. 23 2004,14:36 QUOTE
That didn't seem to work. I added a user via the GUI but it doesn't seem to capture it in the backup process.
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Posted: Dec. 23 2004,16:49 QUOTE
Did you include the /home/whatever_new_user  dir as well ?

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