Recreate Accounts from Restored HOME Dir

[jugo]

Hello everyone.

I have encountered a nifty little problem.

We lost our server due to an undiscovered "shellbot".

We have rebuilt the server with a new hard drive. We have access to the old drives and can mount them and access the files.

Is there a way to recover the accounts from a copied HOME directory.

My idea was to copy over /var/named /home and /var/cpanel/users

what else would help me get the accounts back. Any help would be appreciated.


UPDATE: This is what we got from someone:

Mattson is [email protected] * Linux
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Mattson on #Atk33
Mattson using irc.dRoneIRC.org dRoneIRC - Volta do IRC brasileiro
Mattson has been idle 4hrs 2mins 50secs, signed on Sat Sep 30 07:00:14
Mattson End of /WHOIS list.

can someone help me with this....any insight.....

 

[AndyReed]

We have rebuilt the server with a new hard drive. We have access to the old drives and can mount them and access the files.

Is there a way to recover the accounts from a copied HOME directory.

Does that mean you don't have backup? Is /etc directory there?

 

[lowlight]

Hi, i have the same issue here, i have a early msql back up which uploads ok but i only have a recent home dir backup, i have 200 posts on the home dir but i cannot upload it. any recomendations please..

thanks

 

[jugo]

Does that mean you don't have backup? Is /etc directory there?

I have access to the old drive.

So I can get anything from /etc /var or home that we would need.

Also, is there a way to restore MySQL DBs from MYI files??

 

[nickp666]

you will need

/etc/passwd
/etc/group
/etc/localdomains
/etc/remotedomains

at the very least

 

[AndyReed]

I have access to the old drive.

So I can get anything from /etc /var or home that we would need.

Also, is there a way to restore MySQL DBs from MYI files??

Why not copying all of the DB from the old to the new HD.

 

[chirpy]

You need to copy over more than those few dirs. There's an excellent thread over here that covers what you need to do nicely:
http://forum.ev1servers.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38797