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From: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
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Subject: Re: mergemaster has locked me out
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Kent Stewart wrote:

>  You have to pay really close attention when mergemaster wants to
>  upgrade /etc/passwd and /etc/group. If you don't, you end up locked out
>  because all of your user accounts will disappear.

Presumably, you mean take care so that upgrading doesn't install a clean
/etc/passwd and /etc/group, and not that you must let mergemaster upgrade
those files? ;-)

-- 
Juha Saarinen


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