Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 02:26:56 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: joe <joe-dated-1037323668.d621ae@dubium.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10211100225420.25854-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <200211091725.54547.joe@dubium.com>
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/etc/passwd is made from master.passwd for those jobbies that still need to look at the old style text file instead of making kernel calls. You can regenerate it - I always forget the damn program name - mk_pwdb or something like that - when I forget, I use vipw, change a latter in my real name in the geco, and save - that regens the whole thing too. On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, joe wrote: > While playing around and trying to set aup a chroot environment > I did the following > cd /home/honza > mkdir {etc,dev,lib,bin,.....} > > cat /etc/passwd | grep honza >/etc/passwd > ^<== location of the > typing oops > The leading "/" was unintended. > > Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh > > Now that everyone has gotten back off their seats from the laughter, on > a more serious note is there anything I can do. Let's pretend I don't > have a backup. ..... ok, now that you've stopped laughing again .... > > Is there anything I can do to recover /etc/passwd > > I just double checked and still seem to have access using other accounts > and I've made a copy of master.passwd in case I "commit" the changes > from passwd. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Joe Sotham > -------------------------------------------------------- > Christianity got over the difficulty of furious opposites > by keeping them both and keeping them furious. > - G.K. Chesterton > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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