Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 16:50:02 -0700 From: Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> To: matt@gsicomp.on.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clarification on passwd / master.passwd / spwd.db / pwd.db Message-ID: <SAK.2001.03.02.nrglmoqc@support10>
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. . .|'cat /etc/master.passwd' would do the trick. . . . .| . . . .|-- . . . .|Matt Emmerton and what if I'm not root? On 03/02/2001 4:33:18 PM, "Matthew Emmerton" is quoted as saying: . . . .|> . . . .|/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 www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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