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From: joel@excalibur (Joel M. Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd.... what ELSE?
Date: 1 Mar 1996 18:09:52 GMT
Organization: Excelsior Computer Services
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4h7ehg$35m@client1.news.psi.net>
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I'm used to Linux, not BSDI, so please forgive what's probably an
idiotic question. I've added a dummy user to /etc/passwd and
/etc/master.passwd, but I still can't chown files to that user except
by numeric id, and when I use the numeric id, "ls" doesn't find the
user. What have I missed?
Thanks.
-Joel
(joel@exc.com)
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__|~| 16 Million DEAD. our children first. We in Bosnia wonder if
we have any children left. Seventeen thousand
cnc Bosnia, Europe. 1990's children have been killed in Bosnia in the
cnc HOW MANY MORE? last three years. Those living, some with
gray hair and eyes and hearts of old men, are
``May the world you hardly children any more.''
live in be the world - H. Silajdzic
of your dreams.'' - Debbie Friedman Prime Minister of Bosnia
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