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When playing with *new* platform - FreeBSD, accidentaly deleted file
/etc/spwd.db and rebooted. Now can't get into it at all. Is there any way how
to get everything back? I have a lot of things there... and I do not have
backup...

Please respond directly to e-mail address, this group is sometimes too big to
follow.

Many thanks

Vlasti

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: When playing with *new* platform - FreeBSD, accidentaly deleted file
: /etc/spwd.db and rebooted. Now can't get into it at all. Is there any way how
: to get everything back? I have a lot of things there... and I do not have
: backup...

        Boot in single user mode,remount root
        in RW:
        mount -u -w /

        type:
        pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd

        or:
        vipw

        and quit from editor rewriting the file,
        so that vipw will rebuild *.db you need.

        ^D to proceed into multiuser.

        Rashid

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