Re: Recovering /etc/passwd (was: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!)

2002-11-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-11 11:57, "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > One would almost wish that things like the /etc/rc.conf, named and *mc > > files where there too :-) > > One guru who used to post here frequently kept /etc in CVS (and I sup

Re: Recovering /etc/passwd (was: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!)

2002-11-11 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One would almost wish that things like the /etc/rc.conf, named and *mc > files where there too :-) One guru who used to post here frequently kept /etc in CVS (and I suppose that he backed that up). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recovering /etc/passwd (was: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!)

2002-11-10 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 08:23 PM 11.10.2002 +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > >On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> # 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 >> d

Recovering /etc/passwd (was: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!)

2002-11-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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 > ^<==