[wplug] passwd file

billings at negate.org billings at negate.org
Fri Jul 11 14:04:56 EDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 13:37, Henry Umansky wrote:
> "vipw" will do all the necessary file locking for you.  Hope your familiar 
> with vi!!!

A little trick I've used in the past:

env EDITOR=emacs vipw

Use emacs to edit the files.  You can also do:

env EDITOR=perl_script_which_does_something.pl vipw

To have a perl script do something to the password file.  The script is
given a file as an argument, which it should edit.


-- 
Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>
TSFNKP



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