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
Or if you want to manually edit the /etc/passwd file, you should use vipw,
not vi (or pico).
(or vigr for the groups file)
From the vipw man page;
NAME
vipw, vigr - edit the password or group files
SYNOPSIS
vipw [-V] [--version]
vigr [-V] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
Vipw
ck on in case I screw up..
Eddie Strohmier
Bonwell Globalnet
www.bonwell.com
- Original Message -
From: Chuck Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 2:21 AM
Subject: Editing /etc/passwd
> Hi there,
>
> A quick question that I pro
on 8/3/2000 2:21 AM, Chuck Dale shot down the bitstream:
> 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
> somet
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
ay, March 08, 2000 1:22 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Editing /etc/passwd
>
>
> 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 peopl
linuxconf
cheers
Maziar
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, 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
I don't know of a tool after the fact but 'adduser' will allow you to
specify different options to create the account.
-Alan
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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
> som
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Chuck Dale wrote:
> Which command line tools should I use to modify the information in
> /etc/passwd? Like people's shell etc.
chsh und chage?
LLaP
bero
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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 o
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