Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 03:44:23 +0800 (SGT) From: chas <panda@peace.com.my> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Generating a master.passwd from pwd.db? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980525040629.00a02410@peace.com.my>
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The difficult way I think :
take a look at "man getpwent" and write a script.
I'm sure perl must have a module to access this.
Using python, it's rather easy :
>>> import pwd
>>> x = pwd.getpwall()
Now x contains info like :
[('root', '$1$3KagL$aHK65kVdt9gQLJqIx9HUU1', 0, 0, 'Charlie &', '/root',
'/bin/csh'), ('toor', '*', 0, 0, 'Bourne-again Superuser', '/root', ''),
('daemon', '*', 1, 1, 'Owner of many system processes', '/root',
'/nonexistent'), .... etc
simply join the fields with ":"
But note that you still have to add ":0:0" for 2 of the fields
(6th and 7th fields... every entry seems to have these) though
I don't know what they do.
ie. using only getpwall()'s results would produce :
gary:$1$s5oclFll$3244G/:1001:1000::gary:/home/gary:/bin/sh
when the real entry should be :
gary:$1$s5oclFll$3244G/:1001:1000::0:0:gary:/home/gary:/bin/sh
hth,
chas
>As the subject alluded to, I'm curious if there's some way to (easily)
>generate passwd and master.passwd files from their respective databases.
>I've trashed the master.passwd accidentally, and while I have a backup,
>I'd like to know if there's some way to fix this if sometime I
>accidentally zap the backup file too.
>
>- alex
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