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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:43:33 -0500
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Justin Boss <jlboss@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Backing up user name and passwords
Message-ID:  <20000315184333.B60236@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000315222905.22907.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com>; from jlboss@yahoo.com on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:29:05PM -0800
References:  <20000315222905.22907.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com>

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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:29:05PM -0800, Justin Boss wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a way to backup all user
> and group. I'm bring up
> a new server and I tared the user directories but UID#
> is different when I
> add the user back. So then I have to change the owner.
> Is there files that I
> can just bring over form the old server?

tar(1) does preserve user and group. However, the user that untars
the files must have permission to create files owned by other users
(i.e. root privileges).
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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