On 20.10.2004, at 21:48, Alan Schmitt wrote:

Note that this file is consulted when the system is running in

single-user

mode. At other times this information is handled by one or more of:

lookupd DirectoryServices

By default, lookupd gets information from NetInfo, so this file will

not be consulted unless you have changed lookupd's configuration.

This file is used while in single user mode.

Actually userdb = passwd doesn't actually use /etc/passwd. It uses getpwent() function which apparently in OSX uses lookupd which uses Netinfo.

So, passdb = pam, userdb = passwd should work anyway :)