On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 09:49 +0200, Jean-François Simon wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 19:54 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch 19 Oktober 2005 18:41 schrieb Jean-François Simon > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> I want to upgrade my pc running suse 9.1 while keeping the user > > > >> accounts. By upgrading I mean a fresh install on the / partition > > > >> and > > > >> keeping the user partition. > > > > just keep /etc/passwd. /etc/shadow and homes ;-) > > > > Hi, > > > > STOP! What about /etc/group? > > And if you just copy the old passwd file, you will loose all changed > > system users! > > Can I just copy and paste the regular users in the > old /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group to the new one ? >
I've just done the upgrade. Everything went fine. I copy the users from the old /etc/passwd to the new. Idem with shadow and group. I keep the same encryption, i.e. blowfish. Thank you all for the help. Jean-François
