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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Peter Philipp wrote:

> 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.

  They exec() pwd_mkdb to build the /etc/pwd.db /etc/spwd.db AFTER making
the appropiate changes to /etc/master.passwd which means that they rely on
/etc/master.passwd, and will not work without it.

> Peter

Tom


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