[NTLUG:Discuss] MAJOR mess

[Jim Wildman]

Oh sure you're _supposed_ to....but real geeks edit passwd with
echo "newuser::..." >> /etc/passwd.  They don't even bother with vi!


On Saturday 27 October 2001 02:43 am, you wrote:
>
> Aren't you supposed to use 'vipw' to 'vi' the password files?
>
> I confess I don't use it either - but I recollect that under IRIX, vipw
> won't write out the password file unless it's still syntactically correct
> and passes some unspecified set of tests.
>
> vipw exists for Linux - but to what degree it's similar to the IRIX
> version, I don't know.
>
> ----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------

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