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Date:      Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:22:39 -0500
From:      Dan Welch <welchdw@earthlink.net>
To:        Frank <frank@bart.esiee.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to use LDAP passwd at 4.9 ?
Message-ID:  <20040110202239.GA64885@gandalf.welch.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040107133314.A26989@bart.esiee.fr>
References:  <20040107133314.A26989@bart.esiee.fr>

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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:33:14PM +0100, Frank wrote:
> <snip> 
> at last is it possible to modify the /etc/master.passwd
> file with a shell script to add some entries in it the
> modify the passwd database WITHOUT using vipw ?

I use pw in scripts to avoid vipw. From the manpage:
    "The pw utility handles updating the passwd,
    master.passwd, group and the secure and insecure
    password database files, and must be run as root."



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