Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 06:04:31 -0500 From: "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@gmail.com> To: "N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: _dhcp user problems Message-ID: <E242B503-4961-4A19-B2E0-C65B4EAE8AA1@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86wtipv35k.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in> References: <4E75A276-3D18-47D2-ADB4-96B85B182843@gmail.com> <44d5kklve0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <D35382E7-0B05-4C2A-A357-0A3FDAA5FBDE@gmail.com> <44r78zk1nm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <15F6934E-031E-4EF4-A2E8-808F540A14B7@gmail.com> <86wtipv35k.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in>
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On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:42 PM, N. Raghavendra wrote: > 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'. Hello and thank you for the reply. Yes, I did run mergemaster -p prior to building world. Perhaps when it showed me the diffs and asked me what to do, that is what prompted me to add the user myself so I knew that all of my custom users and groups would be saved. I assume you opted for the choice of merging the two files? > > Raghavendra. > > -- > N. Raghavendra <raghu@mri.ernet.in> | See message headers for contact > Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. >
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