From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 27 8: 4:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 099E014DFB for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 08:04:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11VcJl-000Heo-00; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:03:53 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA15951; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:03:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:03:53 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: cesar@mail.uigv.edu.pe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pwd.db In-Reply-To: <7so0na$hqt6@eGroups.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes. If i understand correctly, when you use vipw to change you pwd and user data, the results are stored in the db file, then the OS updates the 'official' passwd file afterward. jcm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message