From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 24 10:04:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA17412 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:04:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA17405 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:04:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id NAA00416; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:08:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970424130840.00a043f0@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:08:40 -0400 To: keith waters , hackers@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: MISSING master.passwd !!! Please Help!! In-Reply-To: <199704241605.SAA25750@ilink.nis.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 06:05 PM 4/24/97 +0200, keith waters wrote: >Hi all... > >I have a rather immediate urgent problem... > >My master.passwd file is missing! > >I have passwd, spwd.db and pwd.db > >Has anybody out there ever reverse-generated the passwords? Check out /var/backups... you might have a backup copy there. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *