Re: [SLE] 8.2 to 9.0?

From: darryl penny (dpenny_at_ehs.wcape.school.za)
Date: 10/27/03

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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:01:27 +0200

    On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:24:38 -0600, Stan Glasoe wrote
    > On Sunday 26 October 2003 08:53, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
    > > On 10/26/2003 09:39 PM, Donald Henson wrote:
    > > >As I understand it, a "fresh" install replaces virtually everything but
    > >
    > > AFAIK, a fresh install is totally fresh, fresh formatting and
    > > partitioning (if needed) of all hard disk. You can change that
    > > depending on your partitioning, needs, etc.
    > >
    > > >leaves the /home directories alone so that your data is saved. Is that a
    > > >correct assumption?
    > >
    > > If your home directories are on their own partition, you can tell the
    > > install program to mount that partition as home and not format, and it
    > > will obey you. Permissions may be all screwed on home though, as there
    > > will be no users until you add them to a fresh install, and I don't know
    > > if the new users would get a new home or if they would get their former
    > > home directories. The data, though, for sure would be saved. If you
    > > have a lot of users, though, getting home back in shape will still take
    > > quite a bit of work. If possible, add all users in the same order as
    > > before. It might help.
    > >
    > > --
    > > Joe Morris
    >
    > Fresh install will only format the partitions you designate or those
    > that are blank, unformatted before the install. Any formatted
    > partitions are left as is. Same for an upgrade.
    >
    > Separate /home directories will be preserved IF you don't EXPLICITLY
    > format them. Otherwise they won't be touched. As for the users and
    > permissions you will need to match their loginid and userid
    > everytime you set them up in the new OS. By default SUSE seems to
    > use userid 500 for the first user. If you set yourself up as the
    > first user during install (after root) and use the same loginid and
    > verify the same userid then you will be warned that you match what
    > was on that ~/loginid-userid home partition. That new loginid and
    > userid take possesion and permissions of that /home directory. Which
    > is usually what you want.
    >
    > Rolling over several hundereds or thousands of users needs a more
    > automated approach but we were talking home systems right?
    >
    > Stan
    >

    GAS
    I'm thinking of doing this at our school, ±700 users. I know about the
    'newusers' command - is that the only way?

    TIA
    Darryl 

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