On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 03:03:13PM +0100, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:

> However, aliases.db, pwd.db and spwd.db are there, and sometimes I'll
> get a match in one of those, resulting in a deluge of garbage.  Would
> it be a good idea to keep those files in, say, /var/db instead?

Wouldn't that require that /var be mounted to allow anyone to log in? What if
/var is for some reason toasty, but you've got your system set up to require
a password to get into single-user mode?

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