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From: Werner Griessl <croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
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Subject: Re: group changing
To: cp_nairn@its.utas.edu.au (Carey Nairn)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:03:45 +0000 ()
Cc: edmund@hornet.netac.co.za, questions@freebsd.org
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> On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Edmund Jackson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hoes do you change a user's group
> >  -edmund
> > 
> > 
> whoops!
> 
> edit /etc/group and the passwd file
> 
> 
DO NOT edit the passwd file !!!! Use vipw instead .
Werner