Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:37:07 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "joe" <joe-dated-1037323668.d621ae@dubium.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root! Message-ID: <004501c28859$af4644c0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <200211091725.54547.joe@dubium.com>
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From: "joe" <joe-dated-1037323668.d621ae@dubium.com>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 7:25 PM
Subject: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!
> While playing around and trying to set aup a chroot environment
> I did the following
> cd /home/honza
> mkdir {etc,dev,lib,bin,.....}
>
> cat /etc/passwd | grep honza >/etc/passwd
> ^<== location of
the
> typing
oops
> The leading "/" was unintended.
>
> Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh
>
> Now that everyone has gotten back off their seats from the
laughter, on
> a more serious note is there anything I can do. Let's pretend I
don't
> have a backup. ..... ok, now that you've stopped laughing again
....
>
> Is there anything I can do to recover /etc/passwd
>
What's in /var/backups?
Kevin Kinsey
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