From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 22 11:59:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C87155F7 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26431; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:58:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:58:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb -p not doing what I expected In-Reply-To: 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 On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Doug wrote: > > > I'm on a -current system and for various reasons I want to add > > some pseudo-users to /etc/passwd, but not to /etc/master.passwd. > > Basically, these are users who have no login, but a process on the box > > needs to be able to map usernames on a remote system to uid's. So, my > > first choice was simply to add them to /etc/passwd, but that didn't work > > because they weren't in the associated db. So, looking at the man page for > > pwd_mkdb, the -p option seems to do what I want: > > > > -p Create a Version 7 style password file and install it into > > /etc/passwd. > > > > However, when I run 'pwd_mkdb -p filename' it not only recreates the > > /etc/passwd file and db, it also rewrites master.passwd and its database. > > Fortunately I was adequately prepared for this eventuality, however it's > > still not desired behavior. > > Then use vipw to add them to the database, The db for the pseudo-users has to be rebuilt at least once, and probably more than once a day for the multi tens of thousands of users. Unless we want to employ a full time vipw employee, I don't think this will work. :) For now I can live with the behaviour of pwd_mkdb, my concern was more along the lines of which I should send a PR on, the docs or the binary, since (to my mind anyway) the two are out of synch. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message