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i have single system many (~50) user accounts. have had problem in past updating ubuntu versions, i.e., 8.10 9.04, caused problems , had reinstall fresh.

fortunately, had /home on own partition , able keep while formatting /.

unfortunately, however, although made backups of /etc/passwd, /etc/group, etc/shadow , (-) files, not successful in restoring these. or in other words, copied backed-up files onto new system ran headaches existing system uids , gids conflicted in backup file.

had problems file ownership, etc. in summary, turned out non-viable method of maintaining user accounts across clean install.

i'm looking @ other methods of maintaining persistent , portable account management. nis or ldap accomplish me on single host setup? if set 1 nis or ldap , used local login, in better position upgrade or format host , restore nis or ldap files backup?

going right way? experience here? strikes me reasonable thing want do, haven't found info on , i'm not looking in right place.



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