Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 01:07:59 -0700 From: John Starkey <jstarkey@polaris.umuc.edu> To: Jim Smart <jim@tsw.com.au>, FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Changing shells. Message-ID: <38CF44DB.BC38DA55@polaris.umuc.edu> References: <7DC4EFF7C2FED2119BCD0000E8D5E42B378F84@mail.internal.tsw.com.au>
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Thanks for the reply. > There is a copy of the file /etc/passwd stored in memory. > This is what is used for authenification of logins. It is > read at boot time. Isn't that kinda inefficient?? Why waste RAM on something that isn't used that often?? (On a personal system). > $ man vipw for more information. > Yea I tried that, man wasn't installed. I did a minimal just to make sure it would work. I'm doing a custom now. Thanks, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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