On Monday 02 Dec 2002 11:56 pm, dashielljt wrote: > You'd want to do more than one tar command of the form: > tar zcvf user1.tar.gz /home/user1/ > tar zcvf user2.tar.gz /home/user2/ > and so on. You'd have to specify the path of user1.tar.gz like where it > was going to go and the same for the other archive files too.
Home directories are on a seperate partition, what I want to back up is the actual password/account list. /etc/passwd seems to hold some of this, but it doesn't appear to show the actual password hashes (unless cat is programmed to replace them all with a 'x'). -- "Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none." - Shakespeare Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
