On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:48:26PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Kosa Attila wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I mean the restored version on the new _hard drive_.

I can understand what you mean, but the problem is that you are
not right. If I restore the system the uid/gid pairs will be
stored on the basis of the actually running system (according to
/etc/passwd and /etc/group files).

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