Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 02:26:56 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: joe <joe-dated-1037323668.d621ae@dubium.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10211100225420.25854-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <200211091725.54547.joe@dubium.com>
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/etc/passwd is made from master.passwd for those jobbies that still need
to look at the old style text file instead of making kernel calls. You
can regenerate it - I always forget the damn program name - mk_pwdb or
something like that - when I forget, I use vipw, change a latter in my
real name in the geco, and save - that regens the whole thing too.
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, 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
>
> I just double checked and still seem to have access using other accounts
> and I've made a copy of master.passwd in case I "commit" the changes
> from passwd.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Joe Sotham
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> by keeping them both and keeping them furious.
> - G.K. Chesterton
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