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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 13:13:43 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Alexei Akimov <mitra@ukr.net>
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Subject: Re: /etc/master.passwd
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In the last episode (Nov 21), Alexei Akimov said:
> Hi!
> 
> Due to a power fail my FreeBSD was not properly shut down.
> When it was making a fsck check it deleted both /etc/passwd
> and /etc/master.passwd ;(((
> The only file, which left is /etc/spwd.db - is there any way how I
> can recover passwd and master.passwd ?

Check out /var/backups; you should have two previous copies of
master.passwd in there.  Rebuild the other files from that with
"pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd".

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	Dan Nelson
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