Re: changing a users group
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 08:03:51AM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> > Matthew D. Myers wrote:
> > > How do you change a users group assignments without manually editing the
> > > passwd and group and also shadowed files.
> > use vipw for editting your password file and vigr for the group file.
>
> Which is just the same as manually editing them. Is there a good
> reason to use vipw, instead of just "vi /etc/passwd"?
AFAIK vipw is supposed to lock the password file or at least perform the
edits on a scratch copy of the original file and merge in the changes with
the real /etc/passwd (which may have changed while you were editing) when
you're ready.
Cheers,
Joost
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