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To: keith waters <keith4@ilink.nis.za>
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Subject: Re: MISSING master.passwd !!! Please Help!! 
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 03:24:48 +1000
From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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> I have a rather immediate urgent problem...
> 
> My master.passwd file is missing!

Ouch.


> I have passwd, spwd.db and pwd.db
> 
> Has anybody out there ever reverse-generated the passwords?

If you disable NIS, then pw(8) will almost do it for you.
The command "pw usershow -a" dumps the entire userfile, but
leaves out the password. If you apply the following diff to
src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c, you'll get there all the way:

Index: pw_user.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/freebsd/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 pw_user.c
--- pw_user.c	1997/03/24 15:09:41	1.19
+++ pw_user.c	1997/04/24 17:19:26
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@
 	if (!pretty) {
 		char            buf[_UC_MAXLINE];
 
-		fmtpwent(buf, pwd);
+		fmtpwentry(buf, pwd, PWF_MASTER);
 		fputs(buf, stdout);
 	} else {
 		int		j;


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