Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 12:20:03 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: joe <joe-dated-1037323668.d621ae@dubium.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Recovering /etc/passwd (was: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!) Message-ID: <20021110015003.GB93051@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200211091725.54547.joe@dubium.com> References: <200211091725.54547.joe@dubium.com>
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On Saturday, 9 November 2002 at 17:25:54 -0800, joe wrote:
> 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
That's trivial.
# pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
/etc/passwd doesn't get used much any more. The real files are
/etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db. See the man page for pwd_mkdb for more
details.
Greg
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