From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 11 23:09:58 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA08523 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 23:09:58 -0800 Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA08517 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 23:09:53 -0800 Received: by haven.uniserve.com id <202>; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 23:18:42 -0800 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 23:17:33 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Michael Caughey cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding Users? In-Reply-To: <199503112306.SAA09530@larry.infi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 11 Mar 1995, Michael Caughey wrote: > I've been trying to adduser to my system. I've had no luck. So far I've > added to both the /etc/passwd amd the /etc/master.passwd files. I've been > reading the instructions on how to set up a ftp site. so I used in the /etc/passwd is useless. It exists only for compatibility reasons. /etc/master.passwd contains the real info, but is only used to rebuild the binary database. So use vipw to edit the password file. This will lock all the necessary files, and do a proper rebuild of the databases after editing. Tom