Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 09:17:54 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com> To: James Robinson <james@hermes.cybernetics.net> Cc: mcaughey@infi.net, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding Users? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950312091539.20202A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199503121708.MAA01135@hermes.cybernetics.net>
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On Sun, 12 Mar 1995, James Robinson wrote: > > /etc/passwd is useless. It exists only for compatibility reasons. > > /etc/master.passwd contains the real info, but is only used to rebuild the > > binary database. So use vipw to edit the password file. This will lock > > all the necessary files, and do a proper rebuild of the databases after > > editing. > > > > Well, isn't useless a bit harsh of a term? /etc/passwd is still read for things > like "finger", "ls -l", "chown", etc... I believe that ls, etc use /etc/pwd.db not /etc/passwd. Tom
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