Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I can not see a reason why a person needs vipw to edit the /etc/passwd
file and good old vi ( mine is /usr/xpg4/bin/vi ) will do the job nicely and
safely. The correct way may be simply to use usermod(1M) and not ever edit
/etc/passwd directly.
If
This is an important question to me. I have been using UNIX in some flavour
and on various systems since about 1984 and am more than able to throw my
oversized ego over the wall in the hopes of education and instruction.
I have recently run into a situation where I am unclear on what to do. I
Dennis Clarke writes:
SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands vipw(1B)
^^^
That's a key phrase there. It doesn't say museum artifact, but it
could.
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/vipw
[...]
This system is a Solaris Neveda build 35 system complete with
Dennis Clarke wrote:
I recently adopted a style of doing things that may be Linux like and
thus a bad thing in the strict UNIX world. I began to put my root user in a
home directory of /root along with all of the dot files that get created for
PSARC 2003/039 Alternate home directory for root
On 4/11/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd file ?
YES!!! absolutely, people make mistakes, and no one wants to go down
to the datacenter or even the basement, and boot the system with an
emergency disk or install disk to fix
Dennis Clarke wrote:
I recently adopted a style of doing things that may be Linux like and
thus a bad thing in the strict UNIX world. I began to put my root user in
a
home directory of /root along with all of the dot files that get created
for
PSARC 2003/039 Alternate home directory for
On 04/11/06 15:25, James Dickens wrote:
On 4/11/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd file ?
YES!!! absolutely, people make mistakes, and no one wants to go down
to the datacenter or even the basement, and boot the system with an
On 4/11/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd file ?
YES!!! absolutely, people make mistakes, and no one wants to go down
to the datacenter or even the basement, and boot the system with an
emergency disk or install disk to
Dennis Clarke wrote:
It says State : Closed, fixed and thus must be in a patch somewhere for
Solaris 10 GA ? Or strictly solaris_nevada(snv_36) ? Probably a patch on
the way.
Don't know if it is being backported or not. Closed, fixed doesn't
imply that there is a backported fix.
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On 04/11/06 15:25, James Dickens wrote:
On 4/11/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd file ?
YES!!! absolutely, people make mistakes, and no one wants to go down
to the datacenter or even the basement, and boot the system with
Dennis Clarke wrote:
It says State : Closed, fixed and thus must be in a patch somewhere for
Solaris 10 GA ? Or strictly solaris_nevada(snv_36) ? Probably a patch
on
the way.
Don't know if it is being backported or not. Closed, fixed doesn't
imply that there is a backported fix.
Ah
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