From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 30 14:28:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17083 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 14:28:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA17078 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 14:28:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id QAA00960; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 16:37:49 GMT Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 08:37:48 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Stan Brown cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: User ID storage in 2.2R In-Reply-To: <199703300317.WAA10153@netcom8.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Stan Brown wrote: > Even if I put the appropriate lines in /etc/passwd *and* > /etc/master.passwd, they don't seem to be effective. The only way that I > have been able to make this work is by using adduser. If you *really* want to add users with vi, use vipw. It edits master.passwd and then runs pwd_mkdb (also handles locking the files). pwd_mkdb is probably the step you are missing. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82