From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 6: 2:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx.ant.uni-bremen.de (mx.ant.uni-bremen.de [134.102.176.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8423937B404 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 06:02:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from taipeh.ant.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.176.3] helo=ant.uni-bremen.de) by antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 17FwuZ-0006L3-00; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 15:02:43 +0200 Message-ID: <3CFF5D7F.4060300@ant.uni-bremen.de> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 15:02:55 +0200 From: Heinrich Rebehn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Axel Scheepers Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to transfer passwd data from NIS-Server to local References: <3CFF446D.9040905@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20020606140742.D67863@mars.thuis> <3CFF54B8.6080505@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20020606143404.H67863@mars.thuis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message