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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: alan@hactar.demon.co.uk (Alan Benson) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!nic.hookup.net!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!dis.demon.co.uk!hactar.demon.co.uk!alan Subject: Corrupt password files help needed. Distribution: world Organization: Computing Support Services Reply-To: alan@hactar.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21) Lines: 22 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 16:23:12 +0000 Message-ID: <759514992snz@hactar.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Hi, Due to what I will freely admit is my own stupidity I have managed to corrupt all the password files, ie passwd, master.passwd, pwd.db and spwd.db. I've managed to get back into the system by booting from the distribution disks and mounting the drive. I can then rename the rc and rc.local files so that the machine boots to a prompt. With rc and rc.local I get the login prompt, but cant login! I've tried copying files from another system, it didn't help. Of course I cant run anything to update the files because you need to be root :( I would really love to hear any suggestions anyone has, thanks in advance. dv Alan -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Benson | I own the company so my alan@hactar.demon.co.uk | opinions ARE those of the tel : (+44)522 569753 | company. If you have a problem snail:21 Newport, Lincoln, LN1 3DQ, UK. | with that see my boss (ME!)