Re: changing a users group
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> >Which is just the same as manually editing them. Is there a good
> >reason to use vipw, instead of just "vi /etc/passwd"?
>
> only if something goes wrong :) I forget exactly what it is, but vipw does
> some checking before saving the file, preventing some types of dumb mistakes.
>
> Also, if you have shadow passwords, directly editing /etc/passwd can give
> strange results. iirc, i actually had different passwords in single user mode
> and multiuser after that . . . . it took days and some help to figure out what
> was going on.
Would pwck and grpck have helped. I always use these after editing
any of the user/group files.
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Jean Pierre
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