On Thursday, 25.08.2005 at 21:52 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > 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
Ah, didn't know that existed: nice. In my defence, my original suggestion used 'usermod' rather than directly editing /etc/passwd, which must at least in part be The Right Way :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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