topic Re: nis in Operating System - HP-UX

nis

jkumar — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:58:42 GMT

Hi,

My /etc/passwd file is corrupt How to recover the /etc/passwd ???Any Suggestion

Regards
Jai..

Re: nis

Rajeev Shukla — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:09:21 GMT

If your system is trusted (trusted system) then you build (not straight forward) your userlist with UID and comparing with /etc/group etc.. a rough password file can be created.

But the easiest way and i am sure you would be taking backups on this machine..why dont you restore from your last backup..

Re: nis

jkumar — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:01:37 GMT

Backup which i restored is a month old backup that's the problem.After that backup i have created lot of user.

Re: nis

Rajeev Shukla — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:11:20 GMT

I am afraid there is no other way. You will have to apply the changes manually..unless look at the home directory and work on users with directories having UID instead of name in ownership and create all those users again.

Re: nis

jkumar — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:40:08 GMT

Hi,

I have restored the old backup and I have manually added the users which r newly added.Thanks