Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 07:22:56 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recover /etc/passwd from pwd.db Message-ID: <20030302152256.GK280@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <20030302003128.GA7146@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> References: <20030228195647.GA751@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <20030302003128.GA7146@moghedien.mukappabeta.net>
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--aHoHdjwP6C+YV8GI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:31:28AM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote: > I wrote: >=20 > >after the latest crash of 5.0-p2/i386, my /etc/passwd and > >/etc/master.passwd are trashed (I used chsh just before the crash). > >My user line is missing in passwd, and the master.passwd file is > >just binary garbage. pwd.db and spwd.db however seem to be ok. > >How can I recover the text files from the databases? > >pwd_mkdb(8) talks about creating a v7 style passwd file via the > >-p option but I don't know what to pass as file argument, if I > >do pwd_mkdb -p /etc/pwd.db I get: >=20 > Following up my own mail, I found at least one solution in the > meantime; there was a proper backup of master.passwd in /var/backups; > and on that file pwd_mkdb worked. The question remains, however, > what to do in the case when only the databases are left and all > textual files are trashed. Surely there must be a way to create > the text files from the db? >=20 > --=20 > Matthias Buelow >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Launch the utility `vipw` and then immediately close it without editing anything. It will recreate the file /etc/passwd from master.passwd if it doesn't exist. Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --aHoHdjwP6C+YV8GI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+YiHQWZYS9EJQoEwRAoxXAJwK3lP1Yj/2iDlQz6EfcFimkuC7cACfRTIW AYW40dEQSXf2oqY5kJuAxms= =v447 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aHoHdjwP6C+YV8GI-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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