On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> >What I'd like to know is, might I be able to use the old working passwd
> >and shadow files instead? What files does Linux need to perform any
> >password authentication, and how does it do it? I re-added all the users
> >that were in the p
Ritchard Shadian wrote:
>I was recently compelled to reinstall the base system on my machine.
>...
>I restored the old /etc directory and ftp-ed it back to my machine. I
>started searching for files that had been changed. I manually overwrote
>some of them with the old files (files such
I was recently compelled to reinstall the base system on my machine. I
didn't reinitialize or repartition, but little did I know that when I
reinstalled the system, essential /etc files, including the password files,
would be quietly replaced. Luckily, I backed up my working system
before I star
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