10/10 I just upgraded to a new version of FreeBSD and I messed up
when using mergemaster. I now have none of the users from
my old system (except root), but all of their directories
still exist. I backed up my old /etc directory, so I have
all those files...is there a way to get those users back
without having to formally add users again? Thanks.
\_ do you have your old /etc/passwd
\_ I don't know if it would work, you could try to restore
your old /etc/passwd file
\_ same w/ /etc/pwd.db, /etc/spwd.db, and /etc/groups
\_ but if I just replace those files with the
backed up ones, I'll lose some info. my new
system (4.7-RC) has users like www and smmsp
that my old one (4.3) didn't have. -op
\_ so... merge the backup password file with
the new one and run pwd_mkdb manually...
--scotsman |