From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 1 10:15:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42FD637B71A for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:15:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2001 18:15:26 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:16:23 -0700 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Clarification on passwd / master.passwd / spwd.db / pwd.db Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was looking around the system and I have these four password files, I'm not sure what each does: Ok the .db files are system [not plaintext] versions of /etc/passwd and master.passwd, my question is what programs/daemons use these .db files ? Exactly what is their use and the reason they they are there, I know for speed but is the speed noticeable using .db files instead of the plaintext files? How would I go about building these .db files if I went in and edit /etc/passwd not with vipw but just vi. I think I was able to do this, but what if I went with vi and removed everything /etc/passwd would my system still work because it'll be using the .db files? Links for info about this would be appreciated, but e-mail is better . www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message