Bingo!
vipw was what I was looking for. Something to the locking and whatever
else would be a good idea.
The other tools people mentioned:
chfn
chsh
passwd
linuxconf (urgh, if the interface wasn't so ugly)
These are all useful.
Thanks for all the helpful responses,
Chuck
Wrote Cameron Simpson on Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:24:17AM +1100:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 06:21:59PM +1100, Chuck Dale wrote:
> | 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.
>
> On small systems, vi is just fine. The purpose of chpass etc is to lock
> the file during access. The "vipw" command is what BSD used to use. See
> if your linux distribution has that - it serves the same purpose.
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