From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 20:38:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BBF437B71C for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.203.75.236]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GAH005ZDBAWGT@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:32:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:47:14 -0800 From: richard childers Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? To: Christopher Leigh Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3AB6E0D2.16DD67E8@pacbell.net> Organization: The Free State of Dis MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <005001c0b01e$9b3c4660$fa87a7d8@king1> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Not an unreasonable question. However, since users change their passwords, possibly concurrently, there is a need for file locking; also, special tools to insure that the /etc/passwd file is not corrupted. Hence, vipw(1). /etc/group is not as dynamic and is not accessible via any user-oriented utilities such as passwd(1) or chsh(1) which modify /etc/passwd; hence, no special utility is needed. Were such a utility needed then a similar utility would be needed for /etc/hosts; /etc/inetd.conf; /etc/protocols; /etc/aetera. (-; -- richard Christopher Leigh wrote: > hi. uhm, i was just wondering... there's vipw, but how come there's no > vigr for freebsd? > > regards, > > christopher > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 415.664.6291 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message