From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 25 08:51:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA08028 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 08:51:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA08023 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 08:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA00155; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:51:01 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id RAA14371; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:29:35 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:29:33 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setpwfile: Why was it removed? References: <199701240559.AAA06263@crh.cl.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701240559.AAA06263@crh.cl.msu.edu>; from Charles Henrich on Jan 24, 1997 00:59:45 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Charles Henrich wrote: > It was such a handy feature! If you look into the CVS history and the HISTORY section, you will notice that it has never been a part of 4.4BSD. Btw., which file would you pass to it? There are 4 files to mention, pwd.db, spwd.db, master.passwd, and passwd. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)