From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 0:40: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC31737B402 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 00:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-2ivfoir.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.226.91] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Nrnb-0007Fb-00; Tue, 08 Jan 2002 00:40:01 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g088dg002673; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 00:39:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 00:39:40 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Tim Legg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/passwd Message-ID: <20020108003940.G286@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from legg@iastate.edu on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:58:59AM -0600 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:58:59AM -0600, Tim Legg wrote: > Hello, > > I am wanting to learn more about the way the Version 7 of /etc/passwd and > /etc/group are formatted. Could anybody provide some decent web links? > Treid to search but I was lost in the over-abundance of online man pages > for passwd and group. > > I would feel more comfortable knowing how to manually enter users rather > than use the scripts. Never evere touch /etc/passwd. It is an automatically generated file. To edit the passwd database manually, use vipw(8). As for the format, see passwd(5). -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message