On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> > So you could easily get a real hodge-podge of names and numeric ids
> > by recovering to a different system.
> > 
> >    Archived System       Recovery System        Result of Recovery
> >      name   id #          name     id #            name    id #
> > 
> >      AAA    111           AAA      111              AAA    111
> >      BBB    222           BBB      234              BBB    234
> >      CCC    333          (no CCC) (no 333)         (none)  333
> >      DDD    444          (no DDD) (EEE is 444)      EEE    444
> > 
> > Note, 3 of the 4 cases result in a recovery that doesn't match the
> > originally archived system.  May or may not be what was wanted.
> 
> But as soon as /etc/passwd and /etc/group have been restored from backup as
> well and you boot from the restored medium, CCC and DDD become correct again,
> right?

The restored medium is on a cd-rom, therefore I can't change the
/etc/passwd and /etc/group files. This is why I found out that
solution I mentioned in my previous e-mail.

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