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Date:      Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:07:13 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Maho Nakata <maho@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils Makefile ports/sysutils/pwd_unmkdb Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20030721060713.GM42924@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200307210546.h6L5kcb8095323@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200307210546.h6L5kcb8095323@repoman.freebsd.org>

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* Maho Nakata <maho@FreeBSD.org> [030720 22:46] wrote:
> maho        2003/07/20 22:46:38 PDT
> 
>   FreeBSD ports repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sysutils             Makefile 
>   Added files:
>     sysutils/pwd_unmkdb  Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist 
>   Log:
>   wd_unmkdb(8) is a program to derive a text master.passwd file from a
>   hashed spwd.db, which is a useful thing if you screw up a vipw(8) or
>   mergemaster(8), or otherwise corrupt your plaintext file, and don't
>   have a recent enough backup.

That's so weird, I just wrote a program that does sort of the same
thing for someone a week or two ago.  But all it did was call
getpwent in a loop and spew out the results in master.passwd format.

-Alfred



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