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Date:      Thu, 06 Jun 2002 15:02:55 +0200
From:      Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>
To:        Axel Scheepers <axel@axel.truedestiny.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to transfer passwd data from NIS-Server to local
Message-ID:  <3CFF5D7F.4060300@ant.uni-bremen.de>
References:  <3CFF446D.9040905@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20020606140742.D67863@mars.thuis> <3CFF54B8.6080505@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20020606143404.H67863@mars.thuis>

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Axel Scheepers wrote:

> Perl? Awk? Shouldn't be too hard to write something which parses it and writes
> it out to a temp master.passwd. Then pwd_mkdb can check that file and import it,
> check man pwd_mkdb for details.
> 
> Gr,

Just want to be 100% sure:

Does pwd_mkdb *overwrite* the existing passwd database or *update/merge* the 
supplied input with the existing passwd database?

Heinrich


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