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Hi everybody,

I am trying to upgrade my FreeBSD box from 5.2.1 to 5.3. All the 
building operations were successful and the kernel installation too. So 
following the handbook, i made the mergemaster in order to merge 
configurations files. But I have a problem about merging 
/etc/master.passwd. I saw that there were new systems accounts in 
RELENG_5.3 but I have my propers accounts which I don't want to loose. 
So my question is : how to merge correctly and properly the 
/etc/master.passwd file. I saw in the help of mergemaster the v options 
which allows to include common files but it doesn't seems to work.

Does anybody can help me in order to make this merge safely ?

Thank you for your answers

Best Regards,
Ptitoliv