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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!cnplss5!rooij From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: A large number of newbie questions Message-ID: <1993Mar11.102310.674@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> Sender: news@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mozart Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven References: <f0nca0L@quack.kfu.com> <1nmi0hINNgc@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 10:23:10 GMT Lines: 12 mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: >> We tried the man pages, but no luck: If you add an entry to >> /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd, how do you update /etc/*.db so >> that the new passwd entry works? >pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd You better just use the vipw command. That rebuilds master.passwd automatically. -Guido