Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 08:37:48 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.com> Subject: Re: User ID storage in 2.2R Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970330083457.796B-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <199703300317.WAA10153@netcom8.netcom.com>
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On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Stan Brown wrote: > Even if I put the appropriate lines in /etc/passwd *and* > /etc/master.passwd, they don't seem to be effective. The only way that I > have been able to make this work is by using adduser. If you *really* want to add users with vi, use vipw. It edits master.passwd and then runs pwd_mkdb (also handles locking the files). pwd_mkdb is probably the step you are missing. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82
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