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Ludwig Pummer wrote:
> 
> I'm no longer sure that /etc/passwd is needed, since
> pwd.db is what the system uses.

	It's still good to have it around. I've run some software in the past that
barfed if it couldn't read directly from /etc/passwd, and it was darn
tricky to debug too. 

Doug


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