Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:33:18 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Peter" <fbsdq@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Clarification on passwd / master.passwd / spwd.db / pwd.db Message-ID: <002f01c0a371$2a231cb0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <SAK.2001.03.02.qipijapo@support10>
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> . . . .|/etc/passwd is maintained because some pieces of third-party software > . . . .|(and some people) expect to find user names from there, even though > > Another question: > If the file /etc/passwd is not necessary anymore, lets say I get rid of it, how > else do I find the user accounts that exist on the system without "cat /etc/passwd"? 'cat /etc/master.passwd' would do the trick. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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