Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 17:39:09 -0800 From: "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us> To: joe <joe-dated-1037323668.d621ae@dubium.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root! Message-ID: <B9F2F8BD.F8F5%pscott@skycoast.us> In-Reply-To: <200211091725.54547.joe@dubium.com>
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> 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 single character '*' and remove fields 5, 6, and 7 then write this file back out as /etc/passwd. Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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