On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 06:21:59PM +1100, Chuck Dale wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> A quick question that I probably should have answered myself by now.
>
> Which command line tools should I use to modify the information in
> /etc/passwd? Like people's shell etc. On FreeBSD I used to use chpass or
> something similar (it's a while since I used it) which allowed safe
> editing of users' options. But when Linux didn't have that particular
> command I've just been vi-ing /etc/passwd directly.
>
useradd, userdel and usermod are all good (linuxconf is good too if you
like the combine harvester method to mow your lawn).
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