Subject: Re: user home directory
To: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/28/1997 16:59:18
David A. Gatwood wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Scott Smith wrote:
> 
> > Did you do a `pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd' after you edited the file?
> 
> Better yet, use vipw and it'll handle everything for you.  Many versions
> of vipw even allow you to specify an editor instead of vi using a command
> line flag.  I forget for certain whether the NetBSD version has that
> capability or not, but if not, it probably should.  (Though most admin
> folk will probably say "learn vi" ;-)

I think that it uses the value of the EDITOR environment variable if it
doesn't use a command line flag.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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