On Fri, 8 May 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > >Which is just the same as manually editing them. Is there a good > >reason to use vipw, instead of just "vi /etc/passwd"? > > only if something goes wrong :) I forget exactly what it is, but vipw does > some checking before saving the file, preventing some types of dumb mistakes. > > Also, if you have shadow passwords, directly editing /etc/passwd can give > strange results. iirc, i actually had different passwords in single user > mode > and multiuser after that . . . . it took days and some help to figure out > what > was going on.
Would pwck and grpck have helped. I always use these after editing any of the user/group files. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
