Re: Passwd file oddity.

From: Jon Simola (jsimola_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/04/05

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    Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:58:20 -0800
To: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net>

    On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:29:30 -0800 (PST), Keith Woodworth
    <kwoody@citytel.net> wrote:

    > It seems like the machine is using another passwd file. I have
    > passwd/master.passwd in /etc. Is there somewhere else this info is hidden?
    > The passwd file is a combo of standard crypt() and md5 hashes, which does
    > not seem to bother the mailserver for various things, but seems to be
    > having a problem on this new machine, though that should not be an issue
    > as far as I can tell.

    man pwd_mkdb

    You need to rebuild the binary DB password files. No authentication is
    done against the plaintext versions, they are mainly sourced for the
    DB versions.

    Another less intensive option is to run 'vipw' and make a small change
    (add another o to "Charlie Root" for example) and vipw will recompile
    them for you. 

    -- 
Jon Simola
Systems Administrator
ABC Communications
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