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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 18:57:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Philipp  <philipp@globalserve.net>
To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
cc: Paulo Fragoso <paulo@nlink.com.br>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Finger and getpwent
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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Tom wrote:

> > Yes /etc/master.passwd is used for pwd_mkdb to build the databases so it
> > serves a purpose other than that I can't think of any.
> 
>   More.  It is also used by chpass, pw, etc.

These binaries exec() pwd_mkdb, so they don't count.

Peter


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