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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
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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.
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