From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 03:26:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E3816A400 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:26:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from ra.egypt.nl (cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl [213.51.103.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558E513C448 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:26:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from ra.egypt.nl (localhost.egypt.nl [127.0.0.1]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2EB39898 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:26:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix, from userid 501) id 547F639884; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:26:40 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on ra.egypt.nl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, AWL autolearn=ham version=3.2.1 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F753987B for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:26:34 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4692FC63.2080105@boosten.org> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:26:27 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702CFD@www.fcimail.org> <20070709201750.GA66218@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <469299A6.4090006@boosten.org> <77FE6039-9C53-4579-BCD6-C7C7199D37A6@mac.com> <20070709213038.GA66595@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <20070709213038.GA66595@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000755-0, 07/09/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: Subject: Re: password failure- after mergmaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:26:42 -0000 David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:29:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: >>> Having read this I must admit that it's a complete mystery to me why >>> mergemaster would touch your password file at all... >> Because sometimes new versions of the OS come with new built-in user >> accounts, which need to be added to the existing passwd or groups >> databases somehow? > > Yes, exactly. Have to *merge* the changes into /etc/master.passwd rather > than brute force overwrite. > Thanks David, that's indeed my point: FreeBSD comes packed with tools, among them are tools to create (or to delete) user accounts. Those tools can easily be scripted. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org