From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 24 05:53:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA11951 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 05:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA11944 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 05:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13481; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:39:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199801241339.OAA13481@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: Linux --> FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980124002503.007abb90@pop.calweb.com> from Giao Nguyen at "Jan 24, 98 00:25:03 am" To: notwerk@calweb.com (Giao Nguyen) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:39:55 +0100 (CET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to Giao Nguyen: > If you modify passwd.master by chfn, chsh, passwd, etc. that's fine. If > you modify it with vi, don't forget to build /etc/pwd.db with pwd_mkdb. Er... There's no reason to "vi /etc/master.passwd" since you can just as well do "vipw", which will rebuild everything automagically for you once you are done. And do nothing if you didn't change anything. /Mikael