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Subject: Re: MISSING master.passwd !!! Please Help!!
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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?
> 
> Please HELP!!!

i can't remember now, but IMHO vipw read all from db
vipw

> 
> Thanks
> Keith Waters
> (keith@nis.za)