Thanks Steve I've got it running, though I needed to remove the $. Do you know if its a permanent change, or do I need to do this every time I log in?
Cheers Rob T On Sunday 08 June 2003 16:14, Steve Kowalik wrote: > At 3:39 pm, Sunday, June 8 2003, Robert Tillsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mumbled: > > I'm looking into setting up a samba PDC. I've got a help file that I'm > > working through. It mentioned adjusting users using vipw. So I've been > > trying to do that. I've found the vim documentation on my system and I've > > been reading through it, taking a few notes etc. However it seems like a > > bit of a pain to use. Would I be able to use an editor like kate to add > > or modify entries in etc/passwd? > > Yes. Set your VISUAL enviroment to /usr/bin/kate, or whereever it is, and > then run vipw. > > broken:~# export VISUAL="$(which ed)" > broken:~# vipw > 935 > q > > vipw: /etc/passwd is unchanged > broken:~# -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
