On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 05:53:18PM +0300, Guy Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 04:47:37PM +0300, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: > > Quoth Yedidyah Bar-David: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > 1. What is the purpose of /etc/*- (I personally have passwd, shadow, > > > group and gshadow)? > > > > backups. > > Where is it documented? >
As far as I know, it's not documented anywhere. the "-" files are created
by useradd, and useradd alone. Since useradd doesn't use PAM, this backup
mechanism can't be used in the nss layer, like it should be.
Regards, Yotam Rubin
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