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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: alan@hactar.demon.co.uk (Alan Benson) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!nic.hookup.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!dis.demon.co.uk!hactar.demon.co.uk!alan Subject: Re: Corrupt password files help needed. Distribution: world References: <759514992snz@hactar.demon.co.uk> Organization: Computing Support Services Reply-To: alan@hactar.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21) Lines: 23 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 21:27:29 +0000 Message-ID: <759533249snz@hactar.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article <759514992snz@hactar.demon.co.uk> I wrote : >Due to what I will freely admit is my own stupidity I have managed to >corrupt all the password files, ie passwd, master.passwd, pwd.db and >spwd.db. I've managed to get back into the system by booting from the >distribution disks and mounting the drive. I can then rename the rc >and rc.local files so that the machine boots to a prompt. With rc and >rc.local I get the login prompt, but cant login! I've tried copying >files from another system, it didn't help. Of course I cant run >anything to update the files because you need to be root :( Okay, as always happens after 3 days of searching for the problem I post a question here and solve the problems in 5 mins :) I simply had to run pwd_mkdb :) dv Alan -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Benson | I own the company so my alan@hactar.demon.co.uk | opinions ARE those of the tel : (+44)522 569753 | company. If you have a problem snail:21 Newport, Lincoln, LN1 3DQ, UK. | with that see my boss (ME!)