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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 2019 21:50:47 +1000
From:      MJ <mafsys1234@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: master.passwd out of sync
Message-ID:  <c887413a-dfb2-5754-df8e-c92bb3190e7b@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAOLAi321v9UOf=rnYRmexLJ8UYArf-4G0rMtoXNT2wq52Uqvew@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20190903085614.GD3644@io.chezmoi.fr> <152896fe-e1fa-6c4d-b1e4-97d13ea13539@gmail.com> <CAOLAi321v9UOf=rnYRmexLJ8UYArf-4G0rMtoXNT2wq52Uqvew@mail.gmail.com>

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On 3/09/2019 9:26 pm, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 12:01, MJ <mafsys1234@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Albert,
>>
>> On 3/09/2019 6:56 pm, Albert Shih wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
> [snip]
>>> […] I try to create a account with pw and sometime I got the
>>> message
>>>
>>>     pw: user '*******' disappeared during update
> .[snip]
>> If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to know what rebuilds the master.passwd under "normal" circumstances?
>>
>> That would be vipw(8).
> -
> No, it really wouldn't. The OP specified that he's using pw(8) which
> also manages the password databases (or should, hence the question).
> vipw(8) is a different tool altogether., and of the two I'd always
> recommend pw(8).

Horses for courses.

Let me see, last time I had this issue using vipw? Ah, zero.

(Oh and I'm real outrageous, I edit /etc/group manually!)

Regards,
Mark.



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