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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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>     instead of /etc/passwd, or it will not display file owner names.  Is 
>     there any way of createing a fake copy of pwd.db containing a minimal 
>     set of records including stdin/out tools for script use?

   Sure. See pwd_mkdb(8). Be sure to specify the -d option.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project