On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 04:26:59PM +0000, Tim Haynes wrote: > My first attempt was exactly that (well unless I've misunderstood something > about the lack of 's/'); it messes up the end of line, basically everything > beyond the bit the LHS matches. Hence the above amendment after some testing. > This might be a 5.005_03 problem, of course.
I think the problem was that you had /root for the field after encrypted password. For one thing, gecos comes next, and for another, that's /etc/passwd not /etc/shadow. I'm not blaming you for that, I probably would have made some mistake too, since we weren't expecting anyone to try it on their system shadow file without testing it on a sample first! Ok, this is my last msg on this thread. Let's all give this a rest, since the guy who wanted it has got it working at his site. :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y DUPS Secretary ; http://is2.dal.ca/~dups/ Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , dal.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
