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Restore from desktop lacks machine-accounts

Offline loek

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Restore from desktop lacks machine-accounts
« on: April 11, 2005, 06:40:19 PM »
After a 'restore from desktop' on a clean 6.5RC1 machine none of the clients in the network were able to log on to the domain.
A little investigation showed that /etc/passwd and /etc/groups lacked all the necessary lines for the machine accounts, although those lines were all neatly backed up in the tgz archive.

It looks like a bug to me, so I'll post it in the bug tracker. Or is there a logical explanation? (or both) ;-)

Whatever it is, I need to restore my user settings plus machine accounts on a new harddisk, using 6.5RC1. Can anyone point me to info on how to do this, I can't seem to find any recent information on machine accounts in the forums.

Thanks,
Loek