One of the neat features of OpenBSD is that it can be installed easily in network appliances, such as the Soekris boxes. One of the great tools that makes this task easy is flashdist. In that reduced distribution, some usual apps are missing, such as adduser. OpenBSD has it own way of handling users, and it is not advisable to edit the /etc/passwd file manually. Instead, the /etc/master.passwd file is to be edited, preferably with vipw. When the edits are complete, the /etc/passwd file can be regenerated with pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd command.
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