Hi, someone deleted /etc folder on server with WHM and about 100 users.
Well, I can copy the /etc from exactly the same server and change there some settings like ip address, etc. But the main problem is the passwd and shadow files. Is there some way howto recreate it from home folder?
In the home folder are still all files, the dir name under /home/* is name of user and there is also still info about uid, gid. Is there some way (some script) howto recreate the passwd file from this info and recet password to some default? Thank You

Yes, you could write a script to loop through a list of the folders in /home and add a user with the same name & ID, then set it a password.

If that's honestly the only difference, which I find *VERY* hard to believe then yes you can script something to add a username after the name of the home directories. I'd take a copy of passwd group and shadow from a similar server too, and then just add them as if they were normal users.

Personally I'd probably not write a loop or anything, but do an "ls -l /home" and mangle the output to form a number of lines directly.

ls -l /home | awk '{print "useradd -u $2 -g $3 $9"}'

and then run the output if you're happy with it.