Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:48:58 -0800 From: richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Christopher Leigh <clcont@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? Message-ID: <3AB6E13A.51915C16@pacbell.net> References: <200103190333.f2J3XDe33615@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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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
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