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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 14:19:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Nathan Vingoe <nathan_vingoe@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Passwd file corupt
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In single user mode, do:

fsck -y /

Then:

mount -uw /

Then,

vipw and save the file.  That will recreate /etc/passwd, pwd.db, and
spwd.db.

Joe

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Nathan Vingoe wrote:

> Help
>
> While adding a new user to my server, It crashed..
>
> we have got it all coming back up again, but it seems the passwd file in the
> /etc folder is now corrup.
>
> we can therfore only log into single user mode.
>
> how do we
>
> 1.  get it so we can write to the disk, as it seems to be in read only mode.
>
> 2. regenerate the passwd file or what do we need to re generste?  - we have
> got the master.passwd and it seems intact, although, I have never been in
> there before..
>
> regards
>
> Nathan
>
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