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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:23:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>
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To: jasonm@barney.webace.com.au
Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD User Databases
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I believe that Linux does not use a shadow password system (the encrypted
password is in the /etc/passwd file). as root, do the following:

# # add three colons after between group-id and geos info
# awk -F: 'BEGIN{OFS=":"} {print $1,$2,$3,"::",$4,$5,$6,$7}' < /etc/Linux_passwd > /etc/master.passwd
# # rebuild the database files and builds the /etc/passwd file
# /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p

--mark.