Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:39:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb -p not doing what I expected Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906221839050.378-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906221154200.26369-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com>
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If you tweak the cache options to pwd_mkdb, it will complete in just a few seconds even on a very large password file. On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Doug wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Doug White wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Doug wrote: > > > > > I'm on a -current system and for various reasons I want to add > > > some pseudo-users to /etc/passwd, but not to /etc/master.passwd. > > > Basically, these are users who have no login, but a process on the box > > > needs to be able to map usernames on a remote system to uid's. So, my > > > first choice was simply to add them to /etc/passwd, but that didn't work > > > because they weren't in the associated db. So, looking at the man page for > > > pwd_mkdb, the -p option seems to do what I want: > > > > > > -p Create a Version 7 style password file and install it into > > > /etc/passwd. > > > > > > However, when I run 'pwd_mkdb -p filename' it not only recreates the > > > /etc/passwd file and db, it also rewrites master.passwd and its database. > > > Fortunately I was adequately prepared for this eventuality, however it's > > > still not desired behavior. > > > > Then use vipw to add them to the database, > > The db for the pseudo-users has to be rebuilt at least once, and > probably more than once a day for the multi tens of thousands of users. > Unless we want to employ a full time vipw employee, I don't think this > will work. :) > > For now I can live with the behaviour of pwd_mkdb, my concern was > more along the lines of which I should send a PR on, the docs or the > binary, since (to my mind anyway) the two are out of synch. > > Doug > -- > On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only > nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter > what it does. > -- Will Rogers > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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