On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, 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
Been there, done that. I once had an uninstall script running as root
with the following line:
rm -rf $TOPDRI/* # Yup, should have been "TOPDIR"
The result was something like "My mind is going, Dave..."
> 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
If you haven't fatfingered your master.passwd too, just do:
# pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
Otherwise, if the box has been up for a while, there should be a
backup file, so:
# cp /var/backups/master.passwd.bak /etc/master.passwd
# pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
> I just double checked and still seem to have access using other accounts
> and I've made a copy of master.passwd in case I "commit" the changes
> from passwd.
Data is copied in the other direction. There is a reason the file
is called "master".passwd...
$.02,
/Mikko
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