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Date:      Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:03:00 +0200
From:      Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
To:        Henry smith <getzz11@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: password database recover?
Message-ID:  <3CC28E54.9ADDE6@herbelot.com>
References:  <20020421095110.86569.qmail@web21108.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hello,

if you have installed the sources, you can get a "virgin" master.passwd
file from :
/usr/src/etc/master.passwd

can you "ls /etc" to see which files are missing ?

	TfH

PS : the same file is also on the second installation CD (along with a
full /etc directory)

Henry smith wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My password database is mess up. I start the server
> using single user, but I can't change the root
> password.
> 
> #passwd
> passwd: unknown user root
> #passwd test
> pwd_mkdb: /etc/pwd.db.tmp: Inappropriate file type or
> format.
> 
> Anybody know how to resolve this problem?
> 
> Thank you.

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