Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:14:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Leo Mrafko <leo@oel.sk> To: michael johnson <ahze@ahze.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restore master.passwd from pwd.db and spwd.db Message-ID: <20060911211036.U8955@kesp.elf.stuba.sk> In-Reply-To: <b2203fed0609111151y2d657dcejab3764c93c7cf7f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060911203455.H8955@kesp.elf.stuba.sk> <b2203fed0609111151y2d657dcejab3764c93c7cf7f0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, michael johnson wrote: > On 9/11/06, Leo Mrafko <leo@oel.sk> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > after some weird disk accident I have only pwd.db and spwd.db from my > > passwd files left. Passwd and master.passwd are missing. Couln't find them > > in /lost+found too. The system is running, but I can not add new users, of > > course (baybe only using pwd_mkdb -u ). > > Is there any way how to reconstruct master.passwd ? I was searching > > through the archives and dind't finde the answer. I was also trying to > > look into pwd_mkdb source, but ... > > > > /var/backups contains a few files you may need. Yeah, really, thanks, I found there some backup. But I still wonder, if there is a possibily to reconstruct master passwd back from .db files, e.g. in case this backup is not up-to-date. I think it should be possible, but I don't knw how.. Thanks Leo
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