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Date:      Sat, 12 Jul 1997 20:37:50 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>
To:        Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   pwd utilties locking issues
Message-ID:  <199707121837.UAA01056@panke.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <19970709174404.15484@shell.futuresouth.com>
References:  <Pine.NXT.3.95q.970709143528.16133B-100000@ds9> <19970709174404.15484@shell.futuresouth.com>

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Tim Tsai writes:
>Does adduser, rpc.yppasswd, pw, vipw, and passwd synchronize with each
>other correctly?

Mostly. Adduser does not lock the whole session, only when
it change the files in /etc.

-- 
Wolfram Schneider    <wosch@apfel.de>    http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/



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