Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 14:24:54 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Peter Brezny <peter@shorthair.purplecat.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/passwd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990505142312.7628F-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905051413250.15334-100000@shorthair.purplecat.net>
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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Peter Brezny wrote: > why when i make changes to /etc/passwd using pico, things visibly change, > but changing someone's shell from nologin to bash seems to make no > functional changes. > > i've been clued into using vipw, however, isn't there a way to edit this > file functionally using any old text editor? vipw is just a wrapper for editing the password file, you can just do this: export EDITOR="pico -w" then run vipw. btw, i _strongly_ encourage you to learn vi, pico just doesn't cut it and can cause problems when you edit files with strict whitespace guidlines (like /etc/passwd) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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