From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 25 18:37:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A3716A4CE for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:37:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A544943D31 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:37:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krylon@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 27418 invoked by uid 65534); 25 Sep 2004 18:37:50 -0000 Received: from i538755E0.versanet.de (EHLO neuromancer.krylon.net) (83.135.85.224) by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 25 Sep 2004 20:37:50 +0200 X-Authenticated: #685629 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:37:38 +0200 From: Benjamin Walkenhorst To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040925203738.0d36971c.krylon@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20040925183131.GA38556@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040925120109.AFA7E16A4D1@hub.freebsd.org> <20040925181305.GA9216@zeus.itg.uiuc.edu> <20040925202449.6bbe7c77.krylon@gmx.net> <20040925183131.GA38556@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1) User-Agent: Sylpheed 0.9.7 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: what password files do i need? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:37:52 -0000 On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:31:31 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group -- you can regenerate /etc/passwd > from /etc/master.passwd by running: > > # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd > > But note that there have been changes to the standard system accounts > which you will need to merge. Thanks for correcting that. I'm thinking about a clean install, too, when 5.3 comes out. Luckily, I'm using it alone, which makes the restoring of user accounts rather easy... =) > > Cheers, > > Matthew Kind regards, Benjamin -- If cars had improved at [the computer industry's] rate, a Rolls Royce would now cost 10 dollars and get a billion miles per gallon. (Unfortunately, it would probably also have 200-page manual telling how to open the door.) -- Andrew Tanenbaum, "Introduction To Distributed Systems"