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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: corrupt etc/spwd.db Date: 4 May 1996 11:24:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4mfeok$lob@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4m9j3i$qcq@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E eumansky@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Eric M. Umansky) wrote: > For unknown reasons, the spwd.db and passwd files seem to have > erased themselves. We have been able to access the files using > single user-mode, but the problem is that we don't know what to put > in the spwd.db file. And until we can put something there, we are > SOL. So any suggestions on where we might be able to find what goes > in these files? Run pwd_mkdb again. The simplest way to invoke it is to run vipw, and add a dummy line (or modify something else temporarily). It will then rebuild your .db files. Note that pwd_mkdb is in the /usr file system, so you have to manually fsck and mount it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)