On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Carl Lowenstein
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Marieke Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 1) There is no way to delete a group with the GUI. So $sudo
>> /usr/sbin/vigr is the only way.
>
> What's the difference between "$sudo /usr/sbin/vigr" and "$sudo vim
> /etc/group" (or, for that matter, "#vim /etc/group")? If there's
> anything special about vigr, does that apply to vipw as well?
>
vipw and vigr do file locking to prevent more than one simultaneous
attempt to upgrade the file. Also they do some validity checking and
transfer of data to the corresponding shadow file.
The above was a Linux answer. I think things are not exactly the same
in BSD and Solaris.
carl
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