pw buggy behaviour

[Peter Vereshagin]

I feel summer creepin' in and I'm tired of this town again, freebsd-questions!
2011/06/20 13:37:13 +0300 Коньков Евгений <kes-kes at yandex.ru> => To Коньков Евгений :
> КЕ> #cat /etc/master.passwd | grep quagga
> КЕ> quagga:*:101:101::0:0:Quagga
> КЕ> # pw user show quagga
> КЕ> pw: no such user `quagga'
> 
> the command
> pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
> 
> resolves the problem, but why this happen is strange...

This is because FreeBSD reads its users from /etc/pwddb* database

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