>Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 17:44:47 -0400
>From: jk7023@cnsvax.albany.edu (Jaime Kikpole)
>
>        Well, I sort-of have a functioning system now.  I found "man
>adduser", but the command itself didn't work.  When I tried to edit passwd
>and master.passwd directly, that didn't add any new users to the list.
>(chown, login, etc. claim the users doesn't exist.)  Any ideas?

There is no adduser script.  This fact should probably be added to the
BUGS sections of adduser(8); many new users are confused by it.

The password-handling routines in libc use {s,}pwd.db instead of the
raw passwd files.  You need to run pwd_mkdb in order to make any
changes visible to the system.  But what you *really* should do is use
vipw, which does all of the work for you.
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