/var/backups

Quoting joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

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