From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 21 16:19:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1703B14EF0 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:19:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA82904; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37BF3408.FBC9409E@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:19:36 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0815 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ludwig Pummer Cc: Shawn Ramsey , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ludwig Pummer wrote: > > I'm no longer sure that /etc/passwd is needed, since > pwd.db is what the system uses. It's still good to have it around. I've run some software in the past that barfed if it couldn't read directly from /etc/passwd, and it was darn tricky to debug too. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message