Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 07:05:11 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: "Alexsandro D. F. Correia" <acorreia@marlin.com.br> Cc: Chris Bura <chris@main.Netcorps.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970220070143.348A-100000@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970220070703.18943B-100000@blue.marlin.com.br>
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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Alexsandro D. F. Correia wrote: > If I'm not wrong, You just have to run vipw and save the file again. > Doing this, he will change the database. all vipw does is some locking, and then runs pwd_mkdb when you are done... all I'm talking about is recreating the database files... if master.passwd hasn't changed then the database won't change significantly... if at all... I know this quite well as I'm working on adding a feature of vipw to keep your master.passwd in a different location (directory) than pwd.db and spwd.db... this is useful for people that run diskless machines... hope this helps... ttyl... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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