[cobalt-users] Re: Related to telent/shell

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> > Or just open /etc/passwd with your favorite editor...
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> it's not a good idea to open /etc/passwd with your favorite editor...  You
> should use vipw... and yes you need to know vi and how not to make mistakes

vipw will use whatever editor you have set as the default via the EDITOR 
environment variable... but be aware - it is especially dangerous to open 
/etc/passwd with pico if you have any sites/groups with more than a couple of 
members -- pico by default auto-wraps the lines... this makes /etc/passwd 
unusable...

If you *must* use pico (either directly or via vipw), make sure to use the 
'-w' switch to disable word wrapping... 

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