From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 18 19:33:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-236.knology.net [24.214.76.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB98737B719 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:33:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2J3XDe33615; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:33:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200103190333.f2J3XDe33615@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Christopher Leigh" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? In-reply-to: Message from "Christopher Leigh" of "Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:45:05 CST." <005001c0b01e$9b3c4660$fa87a7d8@king1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:33:12 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Christopher Leigh" writes: > hi. uhm, i was just wondering... there's vipw, but how come there's no > vigr for freebsd? Expect it has to do with the fact there was not a vipw until after /etc/passwd turned into a dummy file and the real data moved elsewhere. /etc/group is still The Real Thing. Plain old vi still works fine. But for editing the password file one has to rebuild the database. vipw does this for you. Was a little surprised just now to find vipw was not a shell script. Then agin compiled its only 8k. Sources are about that size too. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message