My /etc/passwd is not blank. Here's the comments I find on MacOSX (10.2.2)I don't use a Mac but my understanding is that MacOS X is basically just Mach with a BSD-style personality called Darwin. As apparent confirmation of that, the guy at the desk next to me (who's running MacOS X) just now cat'd out the /etc/passwd file on his machine at my request.
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# User Database
#
# Note that this file is consulted when the system is running in single-user
# mode. At other times this information is handled by lookupd. By default,
# lookupd gets information from NetInfo, so this file will not be consulted
# unless you have changed lookupd's configuration.
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I do this all the time, thanks to the sourceforge project, fink.Note that he'd never had occasion to care about it before this and wasn't even sure it would be there, though he's built code with gcc on that machine and even installed Debian packages on it.
http://fink.sf.net
A real lifesaver and low-stress way to learn, for installing ported open source software (over 2100 packages so far). I just installed Open Office today, and I'm trying to learn about how to make a script that will run the setenv commands to launch the app, without putting this stuff in my ~/.cshrc
--Michael
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