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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:09:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>
To:        John Starkey <jstarkey@polaris.umuc.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Changing shells.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003151008500.52379-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
In-Reply-To: <38CF411E.191A5A0C@polaris.umuc.edu>

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Hi,

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, John Starkey wrote:

>     Thanks everyone for the help. I didn't know about vipw. Still don't
> understand why it worked??? Anyone???

> I used vi /etc/passwd and it looked like the same file and vipw looks
> like a offshoot of vi.

Vipw is (unless you have EDITOR set to something else) vi - however vipw
automatically rebuilds the password database after you exit.  If you just
use vi, you have to do so manually.

Brett
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