Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:07:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions) Subject: Re: User ID storage in 2.2R Message-ID: <199704011207.OAA01587@CoDe.hu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970330083457.796B-100000@cedb> from Dan Busarow at "Mar 30, 97 08:37:48 am"
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> On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Stan Brown wrote: > > Even if I put the appropriate lines in /etc/passwd *and* > > /etc/master.passwd, they don't seem to be effective. The only way that I > > have been able to make this work is by using adduser. > > If you *really* want to add users with vi, use vipw. man vipw set your EDITOR variable to your favourite editor, and use it with vipw sh/ksh/bash/pdksh/...: EDITOR=your_editor ; export EDITOR (well, this is the original form, but on FreeBSD, you can use the export EDITOR=your_editor form, too) csh/tcsh/...: setenv EDITOR your_editor That's it. Gabor
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