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Date:      Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:27:46 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/30424: Generalization of vipw to lock pwdb while being edited by a script
Message-ID:  <20010908122746.A1684@gosset.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <200109080810.f888A2Y27121@freefall.freebsd.org>; from roam@ringlet.net on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 01:10:02AM -0700
References:  <200109080810.f888A2Y27121@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 01:10:02AM -0700, Peter Pentchev wrote:

The way we've always done password locking for programs other than
vi is:

	export EDITOR=myprog ; vipw

It is suprisingly portable!

	David.

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