I am not sure exactly what you need, but passwd will allow you to change the
password itself and I believe another command you may want to look into is
chfn.
Let me know what you find out.
Chad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 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 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 of users' options. But when Linux didn't have that particular
> command I've just been vi-ing /etc/passwd directly.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Chuck
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"
> as the Subject.
>
--
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"
as the Subject.
