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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>
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Subject: Re: bin/30424: Generalization of vipw to lock pwdb while being edited by a script
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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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