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Tom Potts wrote: > On Monday 12 January 2009 11:04, Simon Waters wrote: > > There is no CD on this and I have no USB CD! Bootable Flash stick? The trouble with USB sticks - I need one that keeps me organised enough to know what is on the stick - with CD's you could just scrawl on the top. >> Does sound like the utility you used was buggy, or not appropriate in >> some way. > Standard gui method as far as I know! As far as I know to - so probably buggy. >> Wonder if it had the good sense to back up the passwd and >> shadow files? > I was configuring usernames as part of setting it up to so I could do backups > etc! Ah that explains it, that is just a variant of murphy's law. Computers always goes wrong when you try and reconfigure them to do a backup. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html