Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 00:39:40 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Tim Legg <legg@iastate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/passwd Message-ID: <20020108003940.G286@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1020108005035.32373A-100000@isua2.iastate.edu>; from legg@iastate.edu on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:58:59AM -0600 References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1020108005035.32373A-100000@isua2.iastate.edu>
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:58:59AM -0600, Tim Legg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am wanting to learn more about the way the Version 7 of /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group are formatted. Could anybody provide some decent web links?
> Treid to search but I was lost in the over-abundance of online man pages
> for passwd and group.
>
> I would feel more comfortable knowing how to manually enter users rather
> than use the scripts.
Never evere touch /etc/passwd. It is an automatically generated
file. To edit the passwd database manually, use vipw(8). As for the
format, see passwd(5).
--
"It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious."
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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