From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 14 01:02:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01413 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 01:02:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from castor.loco.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01354 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 01:01:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djv@bedford.net) Received: (from djv@localhost) by castor.loco.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09753; Thu, 14 May 1998 03:32:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from djv) From: CyberPeasant Message-Id: <199805140732.DAA09753@castor.loco.net> Subject: Re: renaming of usernames and homedirectories In-Reply-To: <199805140208.WAA23438@nwalme.pair.com> from Dima Dorfman at "May 13, 98 10:08:39 pm" To: dima@zwb.net (Dima Dorfman) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:32:04 -0400 (EDT) Cc: djv@bedford.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: djv@bedford.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dima Dorfman wrote > True, but it really depends on how many users are on the system. The > systems I help administer have from 100 to 1000 users. Chances are little > that this will happen. However, if a system has tens of thousands of > users, this could be very annyoing. I don't like using these tools > because when I used to use System V, they either didn't exist, or had a > much different interface. The master.passwd file format is the same as > AT7T UNIX Version 1, so I can login as root to any UNIX system, and be > familiar with the file. Using vipw, which I haven't heard of until today, > it would probably be alot different from System V, OpenBSD, Solaris, ... Suit yourself. Try it once, though. Dave -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message