From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 2 15:49: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com (smtp016.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC0C737B718 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:49:03 -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; 2 Mar 2001 23:49:03 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 16:50:02 -0700 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: matt@gsicomp.on.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 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 . . .|'cat /etc/master.passwd' would do the trick. . . . .| . . . .|-- . . . .|Matt Emmerton and what if I'm not root? On 03/02/2001 4:33:18 PM, "Matthew Emmerton" is quoted as saying: . . . .|> . . . .|/etc/passwd is maintained because some pieces of third-party . . . .|software . . . .|> . . . .|(and some people) expect to find user names from there, even . . . .|though . . . .|> . . . .|> Another question: . . . .|> If the file /etc/passwd is not necessary anymore, lets say I get rid of . . . .|it, how . . . .|> else do I find the user accounts that exist on the system without "cat . . . .|/etc/passwd"? . . . .| . . . .|'cat /etc/master.passwd' would do the trick. . . . .| . . . .|-- . . . .|Matt Emmerton 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