Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 17:25:54 -0800 From: joe <joe-dated-1037323668.d621ae@dubium.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root! Message-ID: <200211091725.54547.joe@dubium.com>
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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.
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Joe Sotham
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Christianity got over the difficulty of furious opposites
by keeping them both and keeping them furious.
- G.K. Chesterton
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