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best way to backup users/passwords

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pollux0

IS-IT--Management
Mar 20, 2002
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can anyone point me to good documentation on how to backup users and passwords on a linux box If the server were to fail and i need to reinstall it, i wouldnt want to go and add everyone back into the system and reset there passwords. is it a simple matter of backing up the password, group, and user files?
 
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