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[jkumar]

Hi,

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

Regards
Jai..

[Rajeev Shukla]

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..

[jkumar]

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

[Rajeev Shukla]

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.

[jkumar]

Hi,

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