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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!cmcl2!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu!localhost!gene From: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: First impressions with FreeBSD Date: 10 Oct 94 23:51:51 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 18 Message-ID: <GENE.94Oct10235151@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> References: <36v5rq$2hh@nasim.cube.net> <37b8b9$q47@alijku06.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.cs.sunysb.edu. In-reply-to: cg@fimp01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at's message of 10 Oct 1994 11:25:29 GMT In article <37b8b9$q47@alijku06.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> cg@fimp01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at (DI. Christian Gusenbauer) writes: In article <36v5rq$2hh@nasim.cube.net>, knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels) says: > >Ah, and is there a passwd to master.passwd converter? I don't want to >run YP, since it's not fully supported and I'd like to automatically > There is a utility called "pwd_mkdb" which corrects the master.passwd file. You have to call this utility after each modification to passwd. Ahem. You have this backward. You make the changes to master.passwd, and "pwd_mkdb" will update passwd as well pwd.db. Use "vipw" to edit the password file, and this is all automatic. - Gene Stark