Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > >Which is just the same as manually editing them. Is there a good > >reason to use vipw, instead of just "vi /etc/passwd"? > > only if something goes wrong :) I forget exactly what it is, but vipw does > some checking before saving the file,

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>> > How do you change a users group assignments without manually editing the >> > passwd and group and also shadowed files. >> use vipw for editting your password file and vigr for the group file. >Which is just the same as manually editing them. Is there a good >reason to use vipw, instead of j

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I think vipw also performs some sanity checks... (least that what it says) I think that s anice thing...I would bet an extra charicter in juts the wrong spot could suffciantly screw a system up course..I only used vipw once...and I didn't change anything... I immediatly exited the program as soon

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Butch Kemper
At 04:57 -0500 on 5/8/98, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 08:03:51AM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > > Matthew D. Myers wrote: > > > > How do you change a users group assignments without manually >editing the > > > > passwd and group a

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 08:03:51AM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > Matthew D. Myers wrote: > > > How do you change a users group assignments without manually editing the > > > passwd and group and also shadowed files. > > use vipw for editting your pa

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 08:03:51AM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > Matthew D. Myers wrote: > > How do you change a users group assignments without manually editing the > > passwd and group and also shadowed files. > use vipw for editting your password file and vigr for the group file. Which is ju

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Matthew D. Myers wrote: > How do you change a users group assignments without manually editing the > passwd and group and also shadowed files. > use vipw for editting your password file and vigr for the group file. Joop [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-07 Thread Greg Vence
Matthew D. Myers wrote: > > How do you change a users group assignments without manually editing the > passwd and group and also shadowed files. > Check out the FAQ-o-matic http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html More specifically, here http://www.debian.org/fom/122.html It dices, slices & for 19.95,

changing a users group

1998-05-07 Thread Matthew D. Myers
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