From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 10 6:49:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070D737B401 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 06:49:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.dubium.com (h24-78-225-134.vn.shawcable.net [24.78.225.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C2343E3B for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 06:49:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe-dated-1037371904.240153@dubium.com) Received: (qmail 82853 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2002 14:51:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO fafner.dubium.com) ([127.0.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Nov 2002 14:51:44 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Stephen Hovey , joe Subject: Re: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root! Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 06:49:44 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: FreeBSD Questions References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200211100649.44213.joe@dubium.com> From: joe X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.64 (Lawrin) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On November 9, 2002 11:26 pm, Stephen Hovey wrote: > /etc/passwd is made from master.passwd for those jobbies that still > need to look at the old style text file instead of making kernel > calls. You can regenerate it - I always forget the damn program name > - mk_pwdb or something like that - when I forget, I use vipw, change > a latter in my real name in the geco, and save - that regens the > whole thing too. Thanks to all who responded. This was not as dire a problem as I had thought, just an inexpensive reminder to observe better "best" practices. -------------------------------------------------------- Joe Sotham -------------------------------------------------------- Christianity got over the difficulty of furious opposites by keeping them both and keeping them furious. - G.K. Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message