Although I don't know why, this was the solution. Thanks to Tony and
Suresh.
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:39:51AM +0000, Tony Finch wrote: >
> On the BSDs the master.password file is used to generate three other
> files, /etc/passwd, /etc/pwd.db, and /etc/spwd.db. The databases are
> used for password lookups rather than the text files. You can regenerate
> them with the command `pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd`.
