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

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> > > Or just open /etc/passwd with your favorite editor...
> > 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...

Yep :)
LOL
On most of the coblats I have seen we don't have that var set by default...
just like mentioned above with wrapping their can be other problems...  I
strongly reccomend that if you need to edit the passwd file you use vi and
try to avoid using other (what could be very strange) editors...  While it
is possible to use other editors with vipw...  vi is rather expected...
Trust me... Life can suck when you break your passwd file :)

vigr for the group file btw...
man vipw
man vigr

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