> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Stephen M Jones wrote:
>
> > to move about 10,000 user accounts and found that the BSD pwd.db/spwd.db
> > concepts were really not practical with a frequently frobbed passwd file.
>
> I know a read a couple postings (I think on bsdi-users) about someone that
> had modified some of the passwd routines to update the databases without
> having to entirely recreate them. If I can find these messages, I'll let
> you know.
IMHO this is the right solution