Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:09:26 +0200 From: Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG> To: doug@allensystemconsultants.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password file recovery question Message-ID: <20030812160926.GA13276@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20030812090041.17518.h012.c011.wm@mail.allensystemconsultants.com.criticalpath.net> References: <20030812090041.17518.h012.c011.wm@mail.allensystemconsultants.com.criticalpath.net>
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Le 2003-08-12, doug@allensystemconsultants.com écrivait :
> there. But then I copied the master.passwd file from the previous
> server over the new master.passwd file and most of the passwords were
> scrambled. Is it impossible to use the old master.passwd file when
> picking up the pieces of the old server on the new server? If it
> isn't impossible, under what conditions can one reuse the file
> contents?
What do you mean by 'scrambled'? Did you run 'pwd_mkdb -p
/etc/master.passwd' after copying the file?
Thomas.
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Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG
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