Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:43:07 -0600 From: "Christopher Leigh" <clcont@gmx.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? Message-ID: <000f01c0b02f$191482e0$fa87a7d8@king1> References: <200103190333.f2J3XDe33615@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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i still like typing vigr. (linux spoils me...) i guess #!/bin/sh vi /etc/group will have to suffice. :) any security concerns in doing that? could i do #!/bin/sh exec vi /etc/group what's the difference? ty. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Christopher Leigh <clcont@gmx.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 9:33 PM Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? > "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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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