Lost user database after bungled upgrade

[Gary Palmer]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 05:09:35PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I lost /etc/master.passwd and friends while trying to recover from an
> src upgrade gone wrong.  I'm trying to run "pkg upgrade -f" to get all
> of the users and groups created by packages recreating, but pkg is
> hitting an assert related to uids:
> 
> Checking integrity...Assertion failed: (strcmp(uid, p->uid) != 0),
> function pkg_conflicts_check_local_path, file pkg_jobs_conflicts.c,
> line 386.
> 
> Is there any way to get past this, or is the system toast?

Did you try restoring from the backups under /var/backups?  There should
be master.passwd in there which can be restored and /etc/passwd and
the DB files regenarated with pwd_mkdb (I think, never tried)

Regards,

Gary