From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 15:43:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161A037BD31 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:43:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA60401; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:43:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:43:33 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Justin Boss Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backing up user name and passwords Message-ID: <20000315184333.B60236@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000315222905.22907.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000315222905.22907.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com>; from jlboss@yahoo.com on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:29:05PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message