Solaris

Hello,

I'm trying to recover my /etc/passwd file, but I can't make it work. Im doing the following:

1. Booting from cd-rom:
2. Mounting hard disk drive
3. Copying my passwd and shadow files to /a/etc/
4. Unmounting Hard disk:
5. Rebooting
6. Stopping my OS from booting ( by pressing Stop+A).

7. Booting with -s option
The Next message appears:
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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Ok I got it, but is there anyway to recover the /home directories of my users?

Depends how you lost them. What actually happened to your system here?

Your users /home directories may well be on a non-root filesystem and still be intact. Do you know where they resided??

As Corona688 asks, how did this happen? What problem are you fighting here?

I was trying to recover root's password but I accidentally erased /etc/passwd file, so I restored this file from the cdrom.

After doing this, I executed de pwconv command and recovered root's password, but lost two of my users:

oradevx
appldevx

So I created this users again and I'm trying to get their home directories.

Messing up /etc/passwd won't remove their home directories.

Is there any file in which I can check my users' home directory? By the way, some of my files are having an ID as an owner instead as a user name, is there any way to solve this?

The usual location is /home/username but it can be anything. find / -type d -name username should help locating them.

About the numeric file userids, that likely means you recreated oradevx and appldevx accounts with a wrong (i.e. different) user id. You can simply fix the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files.