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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Removing Users from FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 2 Jun 1996 16:31:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4osfk8$5cv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nvobf$dvu@news.starnet.net> <4nvuc8$622@atlas.uniserve.com> <4o1uvb$55j@baygull.rtd.com> <4ooa31$mmu@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <31B093B1.F14@mcs.com> <4or2s6$eq8@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E takakami@worldnet.att.net (Takafumi Kamiya) wrote: > I used vipw and now the user is deleted clean. Thank you for your > tip!! But then what are passwd and passwd.master there for if you > have a separate database? For compatibility? /etc/passwd is for compatibility, and perhaps a few shell scripts might break when you remove it. Perl scripts automagically use the getpwbyfoo() functions of the library, thus don't need it either. /etc/master.passwd is what its name is suggesting: the master file. You make every change there (usually by vipw, passwd, or chpass), and this will then be taken by pwd_mkdb(8) to create the .db files. -- 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. ;-)