Re: [linuxiran] two questions

[Aryan Ameri]

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 11:51, Hamid Nouri wrote:

> > Read the adduser man page.
>
> Thanks for everything.
> I think I should explain my problem further.
> We have about 200 NIS user's and we lost root
> partition on my suse, and missed all the configuration
> files such as passwd, group, ..., now I wanna recover
> all of users and user's configurations from their
> existing home directories.


AFAIK many global settings are not available in user directories. 
i.e things that reside in /etc won't probably be in a user home 
directory.

There are techniques for recovering from such situations though. SuSE's 
mailing list might be a valuable source of information for your case.

Cheers
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Aryan Ameri