On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:24:58 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua Colson)
wrote:

>I'm curious to know if someone could point me in the right direction to find
>out how to manipulate the /etc/passwd file and/or the /etc/shadow file.
>
>I know about getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, but these just let me recreate
>the structure of the file, I want to be able to modify it. Mostly to change
>the GCOS fields, and occasionally to rename a user.

Someone already has made a script package to do this, if you are
interested. Do a search for "userman" on http://freshmeat.net,
or go to http://www.drock.de/


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