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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>
To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
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Subject: pwd utilties locking issues
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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.

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