Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 13:13:43 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Alexei Akimov <mitra@ukr.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/master.passwd Message-ID: <19991121131343.A68180@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <000401bf3420$fa8cea00$1d481bac@intranet>; from mitra@ukr.net on Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 03:04:32PM %2B0200 References: <000401bf3420$fa8cea00$1d481bac@intranet>
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In the last episode (Nov 21), Alexei Akimov said: > Hi! > > Due to a power fail my FreeBSD was not properly shut down. > When it was making a fsck check it deleted both /etc/passwd > and /etc/master.passwd ;((( > The only file, which left is /etc/spwd.db - is there any way how I > can recover passwd and master.passwd ? Check out /var/backups; you should have two previous copies of master.passwd in there. Rebuild the other files from that with "pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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