Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:33:12 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Christopher Leigh" <clcont@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? Message-ID: <200103190333.f2J3XDe33615@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Christopher Leigh" <clcont@gmx.net> of "Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:45:05 CST." <005001c0b01e$9b3c4660$fa87a7d8@king1>
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"Christopher Leigh" writes: > hi. uhm, i was just wondering... there's vipw, but how come there's no > vigr for freebsd? Expect it has to do with the fact there was not a vipw until after /etc/passwd turned into a dummy file and the real data moved elsewhere. /etc/group is still The Real Thing. Plain old vi still works fine. But for editing the password file one has to rebuild the database. vipw does this for you. Was a little surprised just now to find vipw was not a shell script. Then agin compiled its only 8k. Sources are about that size too. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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