macbsd-general: None

Subject: None
To: None <giering@omo.cs.fsu.edu, wormey@eskimo.com>
From: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 01/22/1994 14:44:54

re: "after you edit /etc/master.passwd"


*never* edit /etc/master.passwd by hand.  *always* use "vipw".
if you don't want to use vi, set your EDITOR/VISUAL variables
correctly.

vipw:
	(1) backs up the pw file
	(2) locks it, so multiple people can't modify it at once
	(3) automatically does a pwd_mkdb afterwards.


cgd

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