From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 09:09:04 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA20023 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 09:09:04 -0800 Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA20017 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 09:09:02 -0800 Received: by haven.uniserve.com id <203>; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 09:18:33 -0800 Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 09:17:54 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: James Robinson cc: mcaughey@infi.net, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding Users? In-Reply-To: <199503121708.MAA01135@hermes.cybernetics.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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