On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:31:28AM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote: > I wrote: > > >after the latest crash of 5.0-p2/i386, my /etc/passwd and > >/etc/master.passwd are trashed (I used chsh just before the crash). > >My user line is missing in passwd, and the master.passwd file is > >just binary garbage. pwd.db and spwd.db however seem to be ok. > >How can I recover the text files from the databases? > >pwd_mkdb(8) talks about creating a v7 style passwd file via the > >-p option but I don't know what to pass as file argument, if I > >do pwd_mkdb -p /etc/pwd.db I get: > > Following up my own mail, I found at least one solution in the > meantime; there was a proper backup of master.passwd in /var/backups; > and on that file pwd_mkdb worked. The question remains, however, > what to do in the case when only the databases are left and all > textual files are trashed. Surely there must be a way to create > the text files from the db? > > -- > Matthias Buelow > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Launch the utility `vipw` and then immediately close it without editing anything. It will recreate the file /etc/passwd from master.passwd if it doesn't exist. Nathan -- GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc
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