Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:36:52 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Unix Newbie <unix_newbie@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing ftpd's anonymous root directory Message-ID: <20020410183652.GA334@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <1018234364.1636.4.camel@debian> References: <1017952363.8817.36.camel@debian> <1ZT5VFBj31r8Ewn9@caomhin.demon.co.uk> <1018164982.1354.12.camel@debian> <20020409135430.B19376@veverka.sh.cvut.cz> <1018234364.1636.4.camel@debian>
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On 2002-04-07 19:52, Unix Newbie wrote:
> The vipw worked great! I had already modified both files apropriately,
> but just saving the already modified files with the vipw command took
> care of everything. Must have had something to do with rebuilding that
> whole database thing.
After manually modifying /etc/master.passwd you need to run:
# pwd_mkdb
but etting EDITOR to a proper program and running vipw is so much
easier that it is the preferred way for editing passwd of most users,
I guess :)
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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