restoring accounts

Ruben de Groot ruben at bzerk.org
Fri Sep 24 08:56:01 PDT 2004


On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:40:31PM -0700, David Bear typed:
> I'm wondering, if I have a copy of /etc/master.password, is it better
> to just copy that over the default installed version? or to try write
> some kind of script to read it, and recreate accounts from it using
> pw?  
 
Try:
pwd_mkdb /path/to/your/master.passwd

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