On Saturday, 9 November 2002 at 17:25:54 -0800, joe wrote:
> While playing around and trying to set aup a chroot environment
> I did the following
> cd /home/honza
> mkdir {etc,dev,lib,bin,.....}
>
> cat /etc/passwd | grep honza >/etc/passwd
> ^<== location of the
> typing oops
> The leading "/" was unintended.
>
> Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh
>
> Now that everyone has gotten back off their seats from the laughter, on
> a more serious note is there anything I can do. Let's pretend I don't
> have a backup. ..... ok, now that you've stopped laughing again ....
>
> Is there anything I can do to recover /etc/passwd
That's trivial.
# pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
/etc/passwd doesn't get used much any more. The real files are
/etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db. See the man page for pwd_mkdb for more
details.
Greg
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