On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:33:21PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> Wouldn't
> 
>       #vi /etc/passwd
>               /false
>               cepasswd <Esc> n.n.n.n.n.... (looking out for system accounts) 
> 

That probably should be:

     #vipw /etc/passwd (...)

According to man vipw:
          [vipw]  will  set the appropriate locks to prevent file corruption

dt

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