From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 14 13:34:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F301F37B400 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:34:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-vcauhvl.dsl.mindspring.com ([216.175.71.245] helo=joeandlane.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16bTW7-0004sc-00; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:34:11 -0800 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by joeandlane.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1ELXo104662; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:33:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:33:50 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200202142133.g1ELXo104662@joeandlane.com> X-Authentication-Warning: joeandlane.com: nobody set sender to lane@joeandlane.com using -f From: "Lane Holcombe" To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: master.passwd X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.25 X-IPAddress: 207.203.42.36 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think the command pwd_mkdb was designed to integrate master.passwd from multiple domains. I recently had a similar mishap and was able to use pwd_mkdb to restore most of the user information. good luck lane (holcombe) Previously on the list: >Well I just upgraded one of my boxes to 4.5-Release. >During mergemaster I accidentally installed the newer >master.passwd on top of my old one. >I had a similar one on another box, so I copied it >from there and rebuilt the password database. But, >www for apache and the mysql user aren't there >anymore. I was going to reinstall mysql/apache, but >decided to ask if there is another way to include >theses users. Im not sure what options these users >had so I could use 'adduser'. >Thanks >Please cc to gms08701@yahoo.com -- NeoMail - Webmail that doesn't suck... as much. http://neomail.sourceforge.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message