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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:33:08 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: Uh oh...
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>number?" coming in - there's really just no substitute for getting the
>new entries into the password file.
>
>Fortunately, the pw(8) command makes this pretty easy to do. You can
>check to see if the user/uid is already there by doing something like:
>
>    if pw usershow bind > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>       pw useradd bind ..other args..
>    fi
>
>In /usr/src/Makefile.inc1's buildworld rule (I'd stick it before the
>hierarchy stuff, for obvious reasons).

`make world' is not permitted to change /etc.  Especially not
/etc/master.passwd when installing to DESTDIR=/mnt/root.

Bruce

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