How to backup the users

[Jerry McAllister]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:59:18PM +0200, Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users
> ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on
> it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you please
> advise me how to back them up?

Just use dump(8) to back up the filesystem with the user home directories
and also back up where-ever you have the /etc/... file tree.   It is
all in /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd, plus wherever
you put home directories.

////jerry

> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Regards
> Rambius
> 
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