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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!grapool30.rz.uni-frankfurt.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.belwue.de!LF.net!news.omnilink.net!news.toplink.net!toplink1.toplink.net!ck From: ck@toplink.net (Christian Kratzer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: password db corrupt Date: 31 May 1997 11:45:01 GMT Organization: Customers of TopLink Internet Services, Germany Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5mp2vt$nov@news.toplink.net> References: <5mmqub$g2m@news.interlog.com> <5mn0vn$8kq@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: toplink1.toplink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41960 Hi, : Pant pant (wipes smirk from face). Hate that ! : master.passwd is the original - the reset are derivations. : You should have a copy of master.passwd in /var/backups. Do a : "mount -a -u -t nonfs" and copy it to /etc. Then do a : "pwd_mkdb master.passwd" to create *pwd.db and do a "vipw" : and a :wq to create your passwd file. You may not even need : the pwd_mkdb step. you can skip the vipw step if you use "pwd_mkdb -p file" cp /var/backup/master.passwd.bak /etc/master.passwd.temp pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd.temp Greetings Christian -- TopLink GbR, Internet Services info@toplink.net Christian Kratzer http://www.toplink.net/ Phone: +49 7452 885-0 Fax: +49 7452 885-199 FreeBSD spoken here!