From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 18 20:42:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shorts.nts-online.net (dns2.nts-online.net [216.167.161.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A56337B728 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:42:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clcont@gmx.net) Received: from king1 (dialup-lbb-0886.nts-online.net [216.167.135.250]) by shorts.nts-online.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f2J4YlO23044 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:34:48 -0600 Message-ID: <000f01c0b02f$191482e0$fa87a7d8@king1> From: "Christopher Leigh" To: References: <200103190333.f2J3XDe33615@grumpy.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:43:07 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i still like typing vigr. (linux spoils me...) i guess #!/bin/sh vi /etc/group will have to suffice. :) any security concerns in doing that? could i do #!/bin/sh exec vi /etc/group what's the difference? ty. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Kelly To: Christopher Leigh Cc: Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 9:33 PM Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? > "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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message