edit user

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Tue Mar 15 12:36:34 UTC 2005


On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:02:17AM -0500, Michael Velez wrote:
> If this does not work, there is nothing wrong with editing the /etc/passwd
> file manually.  

However, you should use the vipw command to do so.  This will do the
appropriate locking.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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