On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 14:16 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Dan Thurman wrote: > > > > > >> I was manually changing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group > >> file since my users were incorrectly assigned UID/GIDs, > >> I manually corrected the UID/GID in /home for each user, > >> rebooted and noticed that I would get a hang just after > >> udev. > >> > > > > Aren't we meant to use vipw and vigr to edit these files? > > On editing from vigr one is asked to run "vigr -s" > > to edit the shadow file. > > > > > Interesting! I had NO IDEA if this is the case, being a user of > older Unix systems. Thanks for the tip, I'll know better now!
IIRC vipw dates back to (at least) 4.0bsd, over 25 years ago. poc -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
