From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 11:59: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F37B537B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:59:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A73043E8A for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:59:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021111195902.MGYZ5251.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:59:02 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gABJvKd8028826; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:57:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gABJvEdj028823; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:57:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Recovering /etc/passwd (was: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!) References: <20021110202138.Q55127-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 11 Nov 2002 11:57:14 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20021110202138.Q55127-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> Message-ID: Lines: 7 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dirk-Willem van Gulik writes: > One would almost wish that things like the /etc/rc.conf, named and *mc > files where there too :-) One guru who used to post here frequently kept /etc in CVS (and I suppose that he backed that up). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message