Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 00:56:40 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SQL Interface - very wild idea (WAS: Browser interface) Message-ID: <199710021526.AAA00601@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 1997 10:55:04 -0400." <199710021452.KAA11347@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
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> And how exactly does one repair this monstrosity when it suffers from > corruption? I can edit a passwd file manually from a shell given from a > fixit floppy, how does one repair a damaged database? A text file is just a group of bytes with a particular organisation; a database is no different. Worst case you unpack the database into text form and feed it into an editor, then repack it on the way back. See the password database for how this is already done. See also the creation of /etc/passwd for backwards compatability; this approach is likely to be popular long after the authoratative version of the data is buried in a database. mike
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