From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 20:38:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0007A37B720 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:38:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.203.75.236]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GAH0093FBDOJQ@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:34:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:48:58 -0800 From: richard childers Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? To: David Kelly Cc: Christopher Leigh , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3AB6E13A.51915C16@pacbell.net> Organization: The Free State of Dis MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <200103190333.f2J3XDe33615@grumpy.dyndns.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG vipw has been around forever that I know of. Long before /etc/shadow showed up. -- richard David Kelly wrote: > "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 -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 415.664.6291 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message