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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mdn.com!photix.mdn.com!not-for-mail From: kam@photix.mdn.com (Ken Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd.... what ELSE? Date: 6 Mar 1996 17:41:06 -0500 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4hl4a3$3i3@photix.mdn.com> References: <4h7ehg$35m@client1.news.psi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: photix.mdn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <4h7ehg$35m@client1.news.psi.net>, Joel M. Hoffman <joel@excalibur> wrote: >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? Use the vipw command to mess with the password files instead of editing them with vi. -- ------------------- {{{ <<< kam >>> }}} Ken Mueller USNAIL: 345 West Oak Street West Lafayette, Indiana 47906-2605 UUCP: ...!uunet!wintek!photix!kam INTERNET: kam@photix.mdn.com PHONE: Weekday: (317) 494-5382 Other: (317) 743-5262