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Date:      01 Dec 2005 10:12:47 +0530
From:      "N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: _dhcp user problems
Message-ID:  <86wtipv35k.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in>
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At 2005-11-30T21:28:40-05:00, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote:

> Out of curiosity, to make sure nothing else is non-optimal, what
> other user accounts were added from 5.4 to 6.0?  I cannot recall,
> did not save anything from 5.4, and never saw anything related to
> this on any of the documentation on the website.  I only knew to do
> this for DHCP because I strictly followed the Handbook in updating
> and diff'd the master.passwd files and figured things out for
> myself.

Did you `mergemaster -p' before building world?  I did that when I
upgraded from 5.4-STABLE to 6.0-STABLE, and noticed that it added the
`_dhcp' record to `/etc/passwd' and `/etc/group', and did `pwd_mkdb'
as well.  As far as I remember, those were the only changes made by
`mergemaster -p'.

Raghavendra.

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