From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 20 07:06:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA16217 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 07:06:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA16197 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 07:05:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id HAA00644; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 07:05:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 07:05:11 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: "Alexsandro D. F. Correia" cc: Chris Bura , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Alexsandro D. F. Correia wrote: > If I'm not wrong, You just have to run vipw and save the file again. > Doing this, he will change the database. all vipw does is some locking, and then runs pwd_mkdb when you are done... all I'm talking about is recreating the database files... if master.passwd hasn't changed then the database won't change significantly... if at all... I know this quite well as I'm working on adding a feature of vipw to keep your master.passwd in a different location (directory) than pwd.db and spwd.db... this is useful for people that run diskless machines... hope this helps... ttyl... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)