11.3->12.1 upgrade, pwd db not rehashed after adding ntpd user?

[Tomas Engin]

I've had similar problems with 11.3 and 12.0 (unsure of patchlevel) when adding users using Ansible. Had to add a step in our script that runs pwd_mkdb after each user is added to make sure it is reliable. 
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From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org> on behalf of Doug McIntyre <merlyn at geeks.org>
Sent: December 12, 2019 05:50
To: Mel Pilgrim
Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 11.3->12.1 upgrade, pwd db not rehashed after adding ntpd user?

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 05:44:27PM -0800, Mel Pilgrim wrote:
> I used freebsd-update to upgrade several 11.3-p5 systems to 12.1-p1.
> The etc update process added the ntpd/ntpd user/group.  It showed the
> line changes in the plaintext passwd/group files, but the process
> appears to omit the pwd_mkdb step.
>
> After the upgrade, ntpd fails to start:
>
> # service ntpd start
> Starting ntpd.
> su: unknown login: ntpd
> /etc/rc.d/ntpd: WARNING: failed to start ntpd
>
> Running the usual pwd_mkdb command fixes the issue.

I've had varied results with the same thing from 11.2 to 12.1.
Sometimes it works, oftentimes it does not. pwd_mkdb does fix it
up, but would be nice to not have to do that.
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