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Old 05-13-2022, 10:56 AM   #1
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Angry Accidentally removed /etc/shadow

I accidentally removed /etc/shadow. >:-(

What recovery do you recommend?
 
Old 05-13-2022, 10:57 AM   #2
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Use your backup to restore the file.
 
Old 05-13-2022, 11:01 AM   #3
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I accidentally removed /etc/shadow. >:-(

What recovery do you recommend?
Boot from the recovery/emergency/backup system from your favorite external hard drive and restore the latest backup.
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Old 05-13-2022, 11:11 AM   #4
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What about the local backup /etc/shadow- ?
You can recover most of the deleted file from there...
 
Old 05-14-2022, 04:07 PM   #5
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Thanks for your support!

Peripheral-less machine hidden under a furniture and immune to standard reboot attempts made it harder but I managed to boot with "rescue" over serial console, restore the file from a BTRFS snapshot and continue normal boot using 14.2's kernel because the file removal happened during upgrade to 15.0 and I didn't get to the initrd creation part. :-D
 
  


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