Re: Recovering destroyed /etc/passwd from /etc/shadow?

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 05/24/03 

Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 22:40:29 GMT

On 23 May 2003 15:12:41 -0700, NOSPAM wrote:
> Hello,
> I managed to destroy my /etc/passwd file (don't ask ;). Is there any
> way to rebuild it with /etc/shadow (which is still intact)??

let us see

passwd: mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/sh
shadow: mail:*:12140:0:99999:7:::

You have your work cut out for you.
just find the everyone's home and shell is,
look in their directory to uid and group and you start vi-ing away.

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