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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 13:35:53 -0600
To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>,
	"Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Subject: Re: Recovering /etc/passwd (was: REASON #7919 NOT to do things
  as root!)
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At 08:23 PM 11.10.2002 +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>
>
>On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>>   # pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
>>
>> /etc/passwd doesn't get used much any more.  The real files are
>> /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db.  See the man page for pwd_mkdb for more
>> details.
>
>And the files in /var/backups/ used by the periodic script have saved my
>bacon more than once.
>
>	ls /var/backups
>	aliases.bak             group.bak               master.passwd.bak
>	aliases.bak2            group.bak2              master.passwd.bak2
>
>One would almost wish that things like the /etc/rc.conf, named and *mc
>files where there too :-)
>
>Dw

Just do your own script to run the backups you want..... that's all the
other one(s) do....

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

SageOne Net
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jackstone@sage-one.net

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