Previously Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What exactly is base-passwd? [tornado;~]-2> dpkg -p base-passwd Package: base-passwd Essential: yes Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 92 Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 3.2.1 Replaces: base Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) Filename: pool/main/b/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.2.1_i386.deb Size: 15870 MD5sum: 32801a39909215e7591d000d845c23c2 Description: Debian Base System Password/Group Files This package provides the master /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, containing Debian-allocated user and group IDs, plus the update-passwd utility to keep them up to date.
> in any case, how can all this info be accessed? <plug>doc-central of course!</plug>. Seriously, through /usr/share/doc/base-passwd and via frontends that use doc-base to browse through installed documentation. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
