From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 12:21: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05A237B4B5 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:20:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16lFEa-000Fyc-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:20:28 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 470154880D for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:20:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 94E8822597; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:20:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:20:27 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Free BSD Questions Subject: Re: root Error Message-ID: <20020313202027.GA6183@raggedclown.net> References: <00c101c1cab5$a65d7ac0$29821304@crashbox> <20020313175941.GJ68827@roman.mobil.cz> <1016045893.10951.16.camel@kahuna-ws.robhughes.com> <20020313191135.GA5638@raggedclown.net> <1016047049.10951.18.camel@kahuna-ws.robhughes.com> <20020313142915.A88686@rochester.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020313142915.A88686@rochester.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:29:15PM -0500, mpd wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:17:29PM -0600, Rob Hughes wrote: > > Done it with vi, no problems here. > Well consider for a moment why there is a special program called vipw for updating the password file *properly*...it wasn't written for fun. The password file /etc/passwd is there just because it has to be. It's master.passwd that matters, vipw takes care of all of that for you. See previous mail in thread for what you have to do if you do not use vipw. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message