Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:50:24 +0200 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: "<sbremal@hotmail.com>" <sbremal@hotmail.com> Cc: "<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /etc/groups gone Message-ID: <DF6BDA4A-BAF8-4CAE-BC9A-CAC185C63E24@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY119-W2313DAE981608B171884C4A96B0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY119-W2313DAE981608B171884C4A96B0@phx.gbl>
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On 21 aug 2008, at 18:05, <sbremal@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I have managed to remove /etc/groups (rm > instead of vi, was already sleepying). Luckily only a few groups > (2-3) was created earlier. No backup, "of course". > > I believe the file system is still correct, it uses group IDs > instead of names (?). Though ls does not show the correct group > names (only IDs) and creating new groups will reuse the old group IDs. > > Is there any better way of rebuilding /etc/groups than guessing and > manually adding one-by-one. > > Can I somehow list all group IDs used by the file system? > > Many thanks. > > Balazs > ________________ Mergemaster wolk recreate the default groups. Peter
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