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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:24:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Leo Mrafko <leo@oel.sk>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Restore master.passwd from pwd.db and spwd.db
Message-ID:  <20060911212250.C9115@kesp.elf.stuba.sk>
In-Reply-To: <A46082B3-27E8-42C2-919A-45552A24BD58@mac.com>
References:  <20060911203455.H8955@kesp.elf.stuba.sk> <b2203fed0609111151y2d657dcejab3764c93c7cf7f0@mail.gmail.com> <20060911211036.U8955@kesp.elf.stuba.sk> <A46082B3-27E8-42C2-919A-45552A24BD58@mac.com>

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On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Leo Mrafko wrote:
> >> /var/backups contains a few files you may need.
> >
> > Yeah, really, thanks, I found there some backup. But I still
> > wonder, if
> > there is a possibily to reconstruct master passwd back from .db files,
> > e.g. in case this backup is not up-to-date. I think it should be
> > possible,
> > but I don't knw how..
>
> You should be able to use "pwd_mkdb -p"; see the manpage.

Thanks, but sorry, this can only make passwd from master.passwd, AFAIK.

Leo
>
> --
> -Chuck
>
>



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