Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:39:52 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Luis_Guzm=E1n'?= <luis@galileo.or.cr>, "'freebsd-questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Problems after upgrade Message-ID: <A99A5AC30F74624388EE5F757BA58A20D7A221@RED-MSG-50.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <015c01c3fbe6$9ec33930$0401a8c0@copernico>
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> I upgraded my server from FreeBSD 4.6.2 to version 4.8. After=20 > this, my passwd file was empty and my master.passwd was gone!=20 > I have a backup of these files and now I need to rebuild my=20 > users database. Is there a way to do this from my old files?=20 > I also need them for my SMB network. >=20 Sounds like a mergemaster gone bad. If you have a backup as you say you = do, I think you just need to merge the two files together into the new file. = I say merge because going from 4.6.2 to 4.8, a couple system entries were added to the password file. Easiest way would probably be to copy the = new lines from the new/blank password file to a copy of your backed up = password file via vipw, then mv your manually merged file into the normal system location. Good luck.
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