Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 03:47:25 +0000 From: Luis Miguel <sales6@meritvendor.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Attention required: Important information for your website: freebsd.org Message-ID: <94eb2c07eeeefe7535053f1b8c7d@google.com>
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Because for each one it updates text files (passwd and master.passwd) and regenerates databases (pwd.db and spwd.db) from the text files. The fastest way to do this sort of thing is to directly update passwd and master.passwd and then run pwd_mkdb. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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