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From: j.laidman@cowan.edu.au (Jeremy Laidman)
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Subject: [386BSD] /etc/spwd.db lost, can't log in
Date: 18 Jan 93 09:14:51 GMT
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How about this one.  I backed up my system, repartitioned, and I'm resurrecting
the original data.  Somewhere along the line my password database stuffed
itself up.  Now I can't login in multiuser mode.  It says invalid /etc/spwd.db.
Is there some way I can make a new one?

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Jeremy Laidman, Analyst Programmer
School of I.T. and Mathematics                 Phone: (61 9) 370 6648
Edith Cowan University                         Fax:   (61 9) 370 2910
Perth, Western Australia                       j.laidman@cowan.edu.au