Missing /etc/group

[aceman]

I would like to ask about a missing /etc/group in freebsd FreeBSD 8.2. I was fixing a degraded gmirror and forced to run fsck multiple times, then suddenly I realized that /etc/group was missing from the machine.

Is there a way to restore /etc/group from the /etc/passwd file?

 

[phoenix]

Have a look under /var/backups. You may be able to recover it from there.

Or, you can use mergemaster(8) to install the default group file.

 

[aceman]

I could not find in /var/backups.

I will look into mergemaster.