Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 21:50:47 +1000 From: MJ <mafsys1234@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: master.passwd out of sync Message-ID: <c887413a-dfb2-5754-df8e-c92bb3190e7b@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOLAi321v9UOf=rnYRmexLJ8UYArf-4G0rMtoXNT2wq52Uqvew@mail.gmail.com> References: <20190903085614.GD3644@io.chezmoi.fr> <152896fe-e1fa-6c4d-b1e4-97d13ea13539@gmail.com> <CAOLAi321v9UOf=rnYRmexLJ8UYArf-4G0rMtoXNT2wq52Uqvew@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/09/2019 9:26 pm, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 12:01, MJ <mafsys1234@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Albert, >> >> On 3/09/2019 6:56 pm, Albert Shih wrote: >>> Hi everyone, > [snip] >>> […] I try to create a account with pw and sometime I got the >>> message >>> >>> pw: user '*******' disappeared during update > .[snip] >> If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to know what rebuilds the master.passwd under "normal" circumstances? >> >> That would be vipw(8). > - > No, it really wouldn't. The OP specified that he's using pw(8) which > also manages the password databases (or should, hence the question). > vipw(8) is a different tool altogether., and of the two I'd always > recommend pw(8). Horses for courses. Let me see, last time I had this issue using vipw? Ah, zero. (Oh and I'm real outrageous, I edit /etc/group manually!) Regards, Mark.
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