On 2002-11-11 11:57, "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > One would almost wish that things like the /etc/rc.conf, named and *mc
> > files where there too :-)
>
> One guru who used to post here frequently kept /etc in CVS (and I sup
/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
Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One would almost wish that things like the /etc/rc.conf, named and *mc
> files where there too :-)
One guru who used to post here frequently kept /etc in CVS (and I suppose
that he backed that up).
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At 08:23 PM 11.10.2002 +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>
>
>On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>> # pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
>>
>> /etc/passwd doesn't get used much any more. The real files are
>> /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db. See the man page for pwd_mkdb for more
>> d
On November 9, 2002 11:26 pm, Stephen Hovey wrote:
> /etc/passwd is made from master.passwd for those jobbies that still
> need to look at the old style text file instead of making kernel
> calls. You can regenerate it - I always forget the damn program name
> - mk_pwdb or something like that - wh
/etc/passwd is made from master.passwd for those jobbies that still need
to look at the old style text file instead of making kernel calls. You
can regenerate it - I always forget the damn program name - mk_pwdb or
something like that - when I forget, I use vipw, change a latter in my
real name i
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, joe wrote:
> 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
>
On Saturday, 9 November 2002 at 17:25:54 -0800, joe wrote:
> 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
> ^<==
From: "joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 7:25 PM
Subject: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!
> While playing around and trying to set aup a chroot environment
> I did the following
>
> Is there anything I can do to recover /etc/passwd
First off, BACKUP EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW!
Seriously, before you do anything else.
Then you can recover your /etc/passwd file by copying /etc/master.passwd to
a temporary place. Edit this temporary file replacing all the encrypted
passwords with a
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
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