Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:37:38 +0200 From: Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what password files do i need? Message-ID: <20040925203738.0d36971c.krylon@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20040925183131.GA38556@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040925120109.AFA7E16A4D1@hub.freebsd.org> <20040925181305.GA9216@zeus.itg.uiuc.edu> <20040925202449.6bbe7c77.krylon@gmx.net> <20040925183131.GA38556@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:31:31 +0100 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group -- you can regenerate /etc/passwd > from /etc/master.passwd by running: > > # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd > > But note that there have been changes to the standard system accounts > which you will need to merge. Thanks for correcting that. I'm thinking about a clean install, too, when 5.3 comes out. Luckily, I'm using it alone, which makes the restoring of user accounts rather easy... =) > > Cheers, > > Matthew Kind regards, Benjamin -- If cars had improved at [the computer industry's] rate, a Rolls Royce would now cost 10 dollars and get a billion miles per gallon. (Unfortunately, it would probably also have 200-page manual telling how to open the door.) -- Andrew Tanenbaum, "Introduction To Distributed Systems"
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