>> but /etc/passwd is only for human eyes...of how much use is it
>> supposed to be?
>
>Another solution I'm looking at is to change the getpwent() function in
>distrib/utils/libhack to use the master.passwd format - it currently
>uses plain passwd format.

would this imply the reintroduction of the setpwnam() library call?
that one was really really useful.

>Going back to the first thing James said - it occurs to me that we
>could easily use sed(1) to convert from master.passwd format to passwd
>format...

sed 's/:[^:]*:\([^:]*:[^:]*:\)[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:/:*:\1/' \
	/etc/master.passwd > /etc/passwd

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