On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:57:35 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:

> Well, you also have to identify & update any customized config files.
> I keep a list of the /etc files that I've modified, but I can't swear I
> haven't missed any out.
>
Even better, why not keep copies of the modified files? I do that and
keep them in the same place as my additional packages list.

> You also need to add the user accounts to a clean install with the right
> id numbers if you're using an external drive.
>
That's quite easy to do:

Manually.
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After you've flopped the contents of /home back in place, login as root.
"ls -l /home" shows you the user numbers, so use one of the user
maintenance utilities to add the users back, specifying the appropriate
user number for each login directory. I normally did this with the Fedora
system-config-users graphical program.

Scripted
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Use groupadd and useradd followed by chpasswd to recreate any special
groups, set up the users and reset the passwords. This is scripted.


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