WDC mybook and /etc/passwd

[Noah]

I have not rebooted yet at the moment.

so they went blank in the mean time.

as in single line entry

there is no back up of the files.


Brian McKee wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Noah <admin2 at enabled.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I backup my ubuntu systems to a WDC mybook.  I am trying to figure out
>> why I can no longer ssh to the box.
> 
> Hi Noah
>   I'm having trouble piecing together the series of events.
> 
> Did you -
> backup to an external drive
> restore from that drive
> then find out the /etc/password file is empty after the restore?  or
> /etc/shadow?
> 
> I can't quite make out what you are trying to say.
> 
> /etc/password and /etc/shadow shouldn't be empty as in blank....
> Although I haven't tried, I can't see it completing boot up that way -
> forget allowing ssh in.
> 
> Brian
>