Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:58:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb -p not doing what I expected Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906221154200.26369-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906221148030.99084-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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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
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