command used to synchronize changes done in /etc/passwd to
/etc/shadow file?
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Answer / hyma
If /etc/shadow file is correpted we need to use pwconv'
command it is automatically recovered.
If /etc/passwd file is correpted we have copy of passwd
file as 'opasswd'. We need to copy that file.
#cp -p /etc/opasswd /etc/passwd
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Answer / jstkiran
The pwconv command creates and updates /etc/shadow with
information from /etc/passwd.
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Answer / karthik
The command 'pwck ' is used to synchronize the changes done
in /etc/passwd to /etc/shadow.
' pwconv " - convert to and from shadow passwords and groups
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