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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:11:49 -0600
From:      Philip Kizer <pckizer@nostrum.com>
To:        Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Rebuilding a flatfile db forn a hash file 
Message-ID:  <200101200111.f0K1Bod12020@magus.nostrum.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:45:33 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101191443220.11819-100000@joe.pythonvideo.com> 

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Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com> wrote:
>The owner of one of the boxes i admin is a complete idiot and zero'd out
>his /etc/virtusertable file. The only thing he has on the server now is a
>hashed file of the /etc/virtusertable file (virtusertable.db).
>
>Is there a way to recreate the virtusertable text file from the hashed
>file?

The usual wasy to do this should be the praliases(1) command that comes
with sendmail(8).

Usage:

# praliases -f /etc/virtusertable > virtusertable.txt

No extra tools/packages/programming needed.  You will then need to go in
and convert the colons (':') to tabs, i.e.:

# praliases -f /etc/virtusertable | sed -e 's/:/<Ctrl-V><Tab>/'> virtusertable

(The <Ctrl-V> is just because some shells like tcsh/zsh will probably try
to use a <Tab> as a command-line expansion/completion indicator.)


-philip

-- 
Philip Kizer,
USENIX Liaison to Texas A&M University       <usenix@tamu.edu>
Texas A&M CIS Operating Systems Group, Unix <pckizer@tamu.edu>


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