From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 21:45: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.jonelrienton.org (dsl-64-34-25-237.telocity.com [64.34.25.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E17E37B422 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:45:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 75172 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2000 05:03:35 -0000 Received: from debian (10.29.22.23) by zeus with SMTP; 19 Sep 2000 05:03:35 -0000 Message-ID: <02d201c021f5$ee10b3b0$17161d0a@jonelrienton.org> From: "Jonel Rienton" To: , "Spades" References: <3.0.32.20000919123043.013bda10@smtp.magix.com.sg> Subject: Re: passwd Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:56:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 if you have buildworld recently and done mergemaster, you might wanna look at /etc.old/ if you created backups prior to doing the mergemaster. hth Jonel Rienton http://qmail.freebsduser.org sent by qmail-1.03 on a FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Spades" To: Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 11:30 PM Subject: Re: passwd | I overwritten my /etc/passwd with /etc/adduser.conf and | accidentally rebooted, now the passwds all cannot work. When i | rename /etc/master.passwd to /etc/passwd, it might work too. | | When I run the passwd command, I get an error saying that the | /etc/pwd.db is an incorrect file type or format. It looks like | both, the /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db are corrupted. I am trying | to get something working so that i can log in. | | Any idea? | | | | | | _.,+=~`^"-.,_.,+=~`^"-*.,_.,+=~'`^"-.,_.,+=~`^"-.,_.,+=~`^"-.,_.,+=~ | `^"- | Cheng hui .,. Do not be anxious about anything, by | spades@galaxynet.org .,. prayer and petition, with | thanksgiving, | http://npcrusade.web.com .,. present your requests to God. - Phil | 4:6 | _.,+=~`^"-.,_.,+=~`^"-.,_.,+=~`^"-.,_.,+*=~`^"-.,_.,+=%~`^"-.,_.,+=~ | `^"- | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOcbx6aQ0pAI9Fl/WEQIy5QCgqCWAlpON8T7cUE8wL+6uTLAtTUEAn3mD MyY4uoReCZBup3sAM7F7+PbZ =WlGV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message