Don Walters wrote:
On a lot of systems these days you can run "vipw" to edit the
password file and change the UID.
vipw will update the shadow password file too (if you use shadow
passwords).
I have vipw (I'm running RH9) but it seems to be just a incantation of
the vi editor that takes me th
Don Walters wrote:
I have vipw (I'm running RH9) but it seems to be just a incantation of
the vi editor that takes me through the files and allows me to edit them.
Essentially it *is* a wrapper but it also does some file-locking and
other housekeeping...
RH also has pwd_conv to manually create /
On Friday 07 November 2003 12:35 pm, Don Walters wrote:
> >On a lot of systems these days you can run "vipw" to edit the password
> > file and change the UID.
> >vipw will update the shadow password file too (if you use shadow
> >passwords).
>
> I have vipw (I'm running RH9) but it seems to be just
On a lot of systems these days you can run "vipw" to edit the password file
and change the UID.
vipw will update the shadow password file too (if you use shadow
passwords).
I have vipw (I'm running RH9) but it seems to be just a incantation of the
vi editor that takes me through the files and
Cristiano Deana wrote:
User and group are vpopmail and vchkpw. UID and GID are specified in your
operating system's configuration file.
Usually they are not in /etc/passwd but in another file, readeable only by
root (master.passwd, shadow, something_else).
You must read you man pages about pa
Il giorno Friday 07 November 2003 08:23, Don Walters mi scriveva:
> I have tried going into some of the config files and I found a couple of
> places where it specifies 89.89 for the uid/gid. I have even tried
> changing these to what I want them to be, but now my qmail isn't working.
> Looking
It can be any number. The only thing that you will run into is that a
lot of scripts refer to that number and it is used in any rpm's that you
find.
Where did it come from you ask? It has been reserved for use by FreeBSD
and it has just become the standard.
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