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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 1997 08:21:03 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unreasonable rebuild time on large password files
Message-ID:  <19970403082103.GT06676@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970402180612.4804M-100000@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca>; from Brian Tao on Apr 2, 1997 18:07:50 -0500
References:  <19970402212443.OT00003@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.GSO.3.95.970402180612.4804M-100000@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca>

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As Brian Tao wrote:

>     Ah, geez, that's right... I even remember pestering him about it a
> long time ago.  :)  So the patches have been integrated?  I didn't see
> any mention of them in the man pages, so I presumed it was still
> necessary to patch it separately.  How do you enable the feature?

Guido doesn't seem to be very well in writing man pages. :-|  The -u
option to pwd_mkdb(8) ain't mentioned at all, although it's being
used _by default_ if only a single user's entry is updated (passwd(1),
or chpass(1), as opposed to vipw(8)).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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