I wrote: >after the latest crash of 5.0-p2/i386, my /etc/passwd and >/etc/master.passwd are trashed (I used chsh just before the crash). >My user line is missing in passwd, and the master.passwd file is >just binary garbage. pwd.db and spwd.db however seem to be ok. >How can I recover the text files from the databases? >pwd_mkdb(8) talks about creating a v7 style passwd file via the >-p option but I don't know what to pass as file argument, if I >do pwd_mkdb -p /etc/pwd.db I get:
Following up my own mail, I found at least one solution in the meantime; there was a proper backup of master.passwd in /var/backups; and on that file pwd_mkdb worked. The question remains, however, what to do in the case when only the databases are left and all textual files are trashed. Surely there must be a way to create the text files from the db? -- Matthias Buelow To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
