Kingsly John said: > he should be able to generate most of the entries from the shadow file > . yes,and if he was using Suse there would definately be a file /etc/passwd- which could be used to restore the deleted file. > SOP in such situations is to prevent any further writes to the partion > in which the file was deleted from .. and try undeleting the file(s) > or you can open up the whole /dev/hdaX "file" and scan through it until > you find the password file ... and then copy and paste it to an > alternate file. just curious,how does one undelete a file this way?btw it's a good idea to keep a knoppix cd handy for such emergencies.i've even used it to recover windows machines (it creates lots of convenient shortcuts on the desktop to mount all the partitions on the local disks). regards, -dayalan
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