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From: dave@convex.csd.uwm.edu (David A Rasmussen)
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Subject: passwd.pl
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Date: 12 Apr 91 20:12:05 GMT
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I just started reading the book, and know probably more about perl than
I do of sed and awk. Needless to say I have a way to go.

I glanced at the passwd code around page 182 or so. I really would like
to use this code on my system, however we have a dbm password file to update
besides the text version, and our system is too slow to have to do a mkpasswd
every time someone changes something in the text portion.

I was wondering if someone else with a berkeley passwd system with dbm files
has modified the passwd.pl to do this updatedbm in place. I imagine I could
write an external c program to do this. Suggestions?

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