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Authored by aryeeteygerald_rogers.com on Jan 11 2019, 10:24 PM.
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Summary

Add -p to pwd_mkdb in order to ensure password db
changes are also included in /etc/passwd.

PR: 165954, 232921, +

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usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh
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This comment is out of date now - maybe just "Rebuild generated pwd files."

jilles added a subscriber: jilles.

I wonder when it is appropriate to run pwd_mkdb without -p. Only when etc/passwd is considered legacy and needs to be omitted from the system?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 18 2019, 2:36 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.