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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:32:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 08:03 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > UIDs and GIDs should match here. All files belonging to rocketmouse
> > should be 1000:1000 _and_ the name "rocketmouse" should be
> > associated to those numerical values (see files mentioned
> > above).
> 
> Yes, but because I missed to update the database X login asked for 1001.

Correct - several programs query that database instead of
the plain text files.



> > But pwd.db and spwd.db (the password databases with encrypted
> > content) don't reflect those informations!
> 
> So '# /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -d/etc /etc/master.passwd' is ok, regarding
> to ...

Yes, use that command.



> > "man pwd_mkdb" and rebuild
> > the databases.
> 
> -c and -u switches could be used too, but aren't needed, since the
> entries are correct.

It's not needed to make things that complicated (to selectively
deal with entries, for example). The simple thing of

	# cd /etc
	# pkd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd

should do the trick here.



> > If you would have used the "vipw" command to make the change
> > to the passwd (plain text) files, it would have called pwd_mkdb
> > after the change. But don't worry: Knowing those "low level hacks"
> > can be helpful in some worst-case scenario. :-)
> 
> And then I don't need to use vi, if the default text editor still should
> be vi.

The $EDITOR variable will be honored, and as long as the program
is available (and the terminal capabilities apply), it will work
as expected. :-)




-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...