From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 16: 3:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C6637B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 16:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server1.electrosoftsolutions.com (tpconnolly58.dsl.frii.net [216.17.144.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119C043E3B for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 16:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com) Received: by server1.electrosoftsolutions.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <37AQ6F94>; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:03:46 -0600 Message-ID: <71ED4DBF1EA19A45A3765CA9548BE30A212B@server1.electrosoftsolutions.com> From: Thomas Connolly To: Kirk Strauser Cc: "FreeBSD_Questions (E-mail 2)" Subject: RE: Wheel ? Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:03:36 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kirk, Thank you for your informative response. As I mentioned before, I am new to both Unix and FreeBSD. Can you tell me how to rebuild the password file? What are the steps involved? Thanks again, Tom -----Original Message----- From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:kirk@strauser.com] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 9:09 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wheel ? At 2002-07-20T01:42:42Z, "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." writes: >> Edit the file /etc/group (maybe make a copy first). > and after editing said file, rebuild the password db.... I've never rebuilt the password db after editing /etc/group. I think you may've mentally crossed a file or two. :) BTW, if you use 'vipw' to edit your passwd file, you don't have to manually rebuild anything. -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message