I have a passwd and passwd- file,which one should i consider when merging?

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i suppose it’s the ‘passwd’ one.

they’re identical apart from a line that starts with passim:x:.......:Local in ‘passwd’
why do i have 2 passwd files,and can i delete passwd-?

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It is passwd

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any idea what is the second identical file?
edit:
/etc/passwd- is a backup of /etc/passwd maintained by some tools, see the man page. There’s also a /etc/shadow- usually, for the same purpose.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53128/difference-between-passwd-and-passwd-file#53131

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See:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/53131

/etc/passwd- is a backup of /etc/passwd maintained by some tools, see the man page. There’s also a /etc/shadow- usually, for the same purpose.

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yep,should have looked it up.
sorry to have bothered you.

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