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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:44:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        David Martin <dmartin@sdln.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: master.passwd annoyance
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807291544170.24795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000401bdba5f$bfe9ec40$70fc34cc@sdln.net>

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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, David Martin wrote:

> Recently, while adding users to my freebsd machine
> I got an error message that showed that all my
> users had duplicates.  
> 
> I viewed my master.passwd file and saw that all id's/passwds 
> had several copies within the file.  The file would 
> go from root to whomever and then repeat the root
> to whomever cycle any number of times.  I thought
> that someone had hacked my machine (2.2.6) but checked
> the logs and saw nothing out of the ordinary.  This also
> happens on another freebsd box which has just 1 user.
> 
> This has become more of an annoyance than anything else.  
> Each time this happens, I just edit the master.passwd
> file and remove the duplicates.
> 
> However, i'd like for this to stop, so has anyone had
> a similar experience and know how to fix it?

Use vipw.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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