[lug] back up /etc/passwd
Rob Nagler
nagler at bivio.biz
Sat Dec 14 13:21:05 MST 2002
> While keeping user login data for disaster recovery is undoubtably a
> good idea, I don't think a list of unencrypted passwords is necessary.
Having just restored my /etc/passwd and group after accidental
munging, :-( I recommend nightly backups (rsync, tar, or ...) of all
of /etc and /var. It saved me a lot of trouble to simply restore
these files from backup, and the setup time is trivial.
ROb
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