Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:45:49 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: John Starkey <jstarkey@polaris.umuc.edu> Cc: Jim Smart <jim@tsw.com.au>, FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Changing shells. Message-ID: <20000315104549.C16722@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <38CF44DB.BC38DA55@polaris.umuc.edu> References: <7DC4EFF7C2FED2119BCD0000E8D5E42B378F84@mail.internal.tsw.com.au> <38CF44DB.BC38DA55@polaris.umuc.edu>
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John Starkey wrote: >> There is a copy of the file /etc/passwd stored in memory. >> This is what is used for authenification of logins. It is >> read at boot time. > > Isn't that kinda inefficient?? Indeed it would be, if it were true. I'm pretty certain FreeBSD does no such thing. (If it were only read at boot time, you'd have to reboot to add a user! I know this isn't the case.) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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