Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:20:27 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: Free BSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: root Error Message-ID: <20020313202027.GA6183@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020313142915.A88686@rochester.rr.com> References: <LOEJICFDGCPPJOMJCJKDKEFACIAA.bas@kompas-media.nl> <00c101c1cab5$a65d7ac0$29821304@crashbox> <20020313175941.GJ68827@roman.mobil.cz> <1016045893.10951.16.camel@kahuna-ws.robhughes.com> <20020313191135.GA5638@raggedclown.net> <1016047049.10951.18.camel@kahuna-ws.robhughes.com> <20020313142915.A88686@rochester.rr.com>
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:29:15PM -0500, mpd wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:17:29PM -0600, Rob Hughes wrote: > > Done it with vi, no problems here. > Well consider for a moment why there is a special program called vipw for updating the password file *properly*...it wasn't written for fun. The password file /etc/passwd is there just because it has to be. It's master.passwd that matters, vipw takes care of all of that for you. See previous mail in thread for what you have to do if you do not use vipw. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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