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From: rashid@rk.ios.com (Rashid Karimov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PANIC PANIC PANIC
Date: 1 Jul 1996 15:46:05 GMT
Organization: Internet Online Services
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References: <Vlasti.Broucek.239.10813340@psychol.utas.edu.au>
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Vlasti Broucek (Vlasti.Broucek@psychol.utas.edu.au) wrote:
: When playing with *new* platform - FreeBSD, accidentaly deleted file
: /etc/spwd.db and rebooted. Now can't get into it at all. Is there any way how
: to get everything back? I have a lot of things there... and I do not have
: backup...
Boot in single user mode,remount root
in RW:
mount -u -w /
type:
pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
or:
vipw
and quit from editor rewriting the file,
so that vipw will rebuild *.db you need.
^D to proceed into multiuser.
Rashid
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