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From: knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] why pwd_mkdb manually? (was: first impression)
Date: 13 Oct 1994 20:38:57 +0100
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Junichi Kurokawa (jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp) wrote:
> knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels) said:
> >Ah, and is there a passwd to master.passwd converter? I don't want to
> >run YP, since it's not fully supported and I'd like to automatically
> Are you sure you're using vipw?
Yes, I always do.
> A delay between editing and updating with pwd_mkdb can be vulnerable.
> Worse if you forget to.
You did not understand my question: I have a SunOS and a FreeBSD
machine connected in my home network. My users don't want to change
passwords twice and I do not want to run YP, because it's not (yet)
fully supported and it's a hog for just passwd and just two machines
anyway. As the sun does not have master.passwd and the FreeBSD machine
does not understand password aging (e.g. `,..') I cannot just rdist the
passwd from the sun to the FreeBSD machine.
So I need something converting the traditional passwd format to a
master.passwd format before rdist'ing the file.
Bye,
Knarf
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