On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 08:34:55PM +0100, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:

> Good point.  I guess I've been assuming that the .db files are not
> actually required, but just used if present, to speed up access.

It's not completely clear from the man pages... The pwd_mkdb man page
seems to indicate that they're required. My quick perusal of the getpwent
doesn't show me what it wants to use... It looks like they're not used
if you're using YP, but that's just a guess.

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