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From: Ruben de Groot <ruben@bzerk.org>
To: David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu>
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:40:31PM -0700, David Bear typed:
> I'm wondering, if I have a copy of /etc/master.password, is it better
> to just copy that over the default installed version? or to try write
> some kind of script to read it, and recreate accounts from it using
> pw?  
 
Try:
pwd_mkdb /path/to/your/master.passwd

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