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From: Erin Fortenberry <efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us>
To: "'Klaus Berbach'" <K_Berbach@gmx.de>,
	FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: Restore Userdatabase
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 15:29:37 -0800 
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Once you put the master.passwd and group files back into /etc run;

pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd

And you will be done.

Erin



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klaus Berbach [mailto:K_Berbach@gmx.de]
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> Hello,
>=20
> I wonder, after a reinstallation, how to restore my
> userdatabase (plain Unix, no Kerberos or NIS). That is,
> I need master.passwd, passwd and groups, I guess. What
> else needs to be backed up for this purpose and - how
> to restore it, since just copying back the files isn=B4t
> enough, is it ?
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> Any help or point to documentation would be nice
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> Regards
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> Klaus
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