While playing around and trying to set aup a chroot environment
I did the following
cd /home/honza
mkdir {etc,dev,lib,bin,.....}

cat /etc/passwd | grep honza >/etc/passwd
                                                 ^<== location of the 
                                                          typing oops
The leading "/" was unintended.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

Now that everyone has gotten back off their seats from the laughter, on 
a more serious note is there anything I can do.  Let's pretend I don't 
have a backup.  .....  ok, now that you've stopped laughing again ....

Is there anything I can do to recover /etc/passwd

I just double checked and still seem to have access using other accounts 
and I've made a copy of master.passwd in case I "commit" the changes 
from passwd.

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Joe Sotham
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Christianity got over the difficulty of furious opposites
by keeping them both and keeping them furious.
                      - G.K. Chesterton

                            



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