Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:27:38 -0800 From: Travis Cole <tcole@nihilist.org> To: Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems merging old /etc/passwd on new install Message-ID: <20010215162737.E60974@nihilist.org> In-Reply-To: <20010215192440.85BAE37B401@hub.freebsd.org>; from stanb@awod.com on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:24:38PM -0500 References: <20010215192440.85BAE37B401@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:24:38PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I have just reinstalled 4-STABLE on what was a 4.4 system. > > I saved all the old files, and now I am trying to merge in the users. When > I go inot vipw, and read in the appropriate lines from the old passwd file, > I get an error when I exit vi. > > Heres what I am getting: > > pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry > pwd_mkdb: at line #19 > pwd_mkdb: /etc/pw.330Vd9 Inappropriate file type or format. > > What am I doing wrong here? You will have to give us more information. Your old password file is probably not directly compatible with the new one, and you may need to write a script to convert it... But it would be helpfull to see what an entry from the old one looks like, compared to an entry in the new one.... > I need to get these suers back in with the same UID/GID's, so I can easily > restore there home directries. -- -Travis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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