On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 07:55:52PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> 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?
>
> If no where else, in the source. RTFS.
>
I did grep *some* sources. I didn't think about useradd.
This is indeed the "shadow" package (useradd, vipw, ...).
Thanks for anyone who replied!
However, even though still off-topic, I am still interested in ideas
about the second problem, of how to find such things, and I think
others are too. I do hope to get more answers then "ask your favourite
ML" (which did work!). "grep the entire sources of the packages you
have installed" is also not what I expect, although having the option
is great.
In this case, grepping "/etc/passwd-" in /usr/share/doc would also
find it, but only in the file "CHANGES" (that is, by coincidence).
Thanks again,
Didi
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