From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 24 00:02:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27106 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 00:02:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27079 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 00:02:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA09468; Sun, 24 May 1998 00:02:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 00:02:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Alex cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Generating a master.passwd from pwd.db? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 May 1998, Alex wrote: > 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. Not from the database files, which should be construed as a security feature. AFAIK. Don't forget about /var/backup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message