Screwed up all my user accounts

[ilemur]

I have tried updating my system to 8.1. But as it was my first time i didn't pay attention to mergemaster output. Now i have an empty passwd file with no user/group accounts and no backup ( Is there any solution to this?

 

[yoshisakan]

I'd try running sysinstall and recreate an account. If the files still exist, maybe it will relink them?

 

[Beastie]

Check /var/backups.

 

[da1]

[CMD=""]freebsd-update rollback[/CMD] maybe ?

 

[anomie]

I have tried updating my system to 8.1. But as it was my first time i didn't pay attention to mergemaster output.

From what major / minor version -> 8.1? What steps did you follow to upgrade your system?

This may not help you at the moment, but it is important to back up /etc before running mergemaster.

Simple as: # tar cfz /etc.old.tgz /etc