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Subject: Re: Restore master.passwd from pwd.db and spwd.db
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On 9/11/06, Leo Mrafko <leo@oel.sk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> after some weird disk accident I have only pwd.db and spwd.db from my
> passwd files left. Passwd and master.passwd are missing. Couln't find them
> in /lost+found too. The system is running, but I can not add new users, of
> course (baybe only using pwd_mkdb -u ).
> Is there any way how to reconstruct master.passwd ? I was searching
> through the archives and dind't finde the answer. I was also trying to
> look into pwd_mkdb source, but ...
>

/var/backups contains a few files you may need.

> Thanks in advance
> Leo Mrafko
>
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