transferring data (after losing all non-root logins)

[David Syphers]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Matthew Emmerton wrote:

> Well, it really sounds like your password database got got hosed.  Does
> /etc/master.passwd have entries for all of your non-root users?
> If so, then probably all you need to do is regenerate your password
> database.  The easiest way to do this is run "vipw", make some kind of
> change (and undo the change -- this is just so it thinks the file has been
> changed) and exit.  Your password database will be regenerated.

Thanks... better than a workaround, solving the problem is always nice :)
All the files, including master.passwd, were fine, which is what puzzled
me, but regenerating the password database worked.

-David