[ncolug] Re: /etc/shadow !! in password file

  • From: "M. Knisely" <charon79m@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:20:30 -0400

Hosts store next to nothing...  Guests are the production network.  It's
like backing up the settings on a switch... yeah, it might be a pain to
re-create, but there's no real data there.

It would be less than 10 min to rebuild the host, but I would take the
guests down that are on that host.


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Mike <bellyacres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 06/20/2013 01:52 PM, M. Knisely wrote:
>
>> This is a VMware host... there's no backup... I have backups of the
>> guests, but not the host.
>>
>> UID:GID 99 is the default for this user on VMware.  In VMware the UID:GID
>> of 65534 is for "nfsnobody"... another account I have to recreate.
>>
>> Mike K.
>>
>>
> Hmmm, to my way of thinking the host is more important than the guests.
>  Having at least /etc/ backed up would alleviate many headaches.
>
>
> Mike
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