Backing up a user/password in frugal

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Backing up a user/password in frugal
started by: clivesay

Posted by clivesay on Dec. 22 2004,19:48

Can someone point me to the correct files to backup when adding an additional user and password to a frugal install? No luck searching....

Thanks

Chris

Posted by henk1955 on Dec. 23 2004,08:09

etc/group
etc/group~
etc/group.org
etc/passwd
etc/passwd~
etc/passwd.org
etc/shadow
etc/shadow~
etc/shadow.org

works for me.

Posted by clivesay on Dec. 23 2004,14:08

Great! Thanks henk1955!

Chris

Posted by clivesay on Dec. 23 2004,14:36

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.

Posted by ke4nt1 on Dec. 23 2004,16:49

Did you include the /home/whatever_new_user dir as well ?

73
ke4nt

Posted by clivesay on Dec. 23 2004,16:57

As AwPhuch would say......DOH!!!

Posted by clivesay on Dec. 23 2004,18:02

Yep, I'm working now.....Thanks for pointing out my stupidity, ke4nt!

All I can say is.... bookmark!

Chris

Posted by softgun on Feb. 05 2005,15:29

Please tell me how I can add another user to the live CD and save it without remastering. i want to add user postgres as it is needed to create a postgresql.dsl

Thank you