From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 2 15:31:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9357637B71A for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:31:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f22NTti25734; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:29:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <002f01c0a371$2a231cb0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Peter" , References: Subject: Re: Clarification on passwd / master.passwd / spwd.db / pwd.db Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:33:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > . . . .|/etc/passwd is maintained because some pieces of third-party software > . . . .|(and some people) expect to find user names from there, even though > > Another question: > If the file /etc/passwd is not necessary anymore, lets say I get rid of it, how > else do I find the user accounts that exist on the system without "cat /etc/passwd"? 'cat /etc/master.passwd' would do the trick. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message