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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!news.aut.alcatel.at!atusc75!ladavac From: ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NIS with SUNOS4.1.3 Date: 11 Sep 1995 14:48:32 GMT Organization: Alcatel Austria AG Lines: 18 Message-ID: <431i80$s87@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> References: <42qgn6$e2m@gryphon.phoenix.net> <42r1vo$3j2@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: atusc75.aut.alcatel.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Bill Paul (wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu) wrote: : Also, DO NOT edit /etc/passwd: this file has no effect on : system behavior. The administrator should edit only /etc/master.passwd : and use pwd_mkdb(8) to rebuild the hashed databases afterwards. : -Bill Additionally, vipw should do all the necessary locking and call pwd_mkdb for you on exit automatically. The only downside is that it invokes vi for you (never tried to set EDITOR to something else; I always use vi as admin :) and if you don't like that, tough :) /Alby