On Fri, 8 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 08:03:51AM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > Matthew D. Myers wrote: > > > How do you change a users group assignments without manually editing the > > > passwd and group and also shadowed files. > > use vipw for editting your password file and vigr for the group file. > > Which is just the same as manually editing them. Is there a good > reason to use vipw, instead of just "vi /etc/passwd"?
AFAIK vipw is supposed to lock the password file or at least perform the edits on a scratch copy of the original file and merge in the changes with the real /etc/passwd (which may have changed while you were editing) when you're ready. Cheers, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]