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On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 08:22 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> On Saturday 04 December 2004 06:56 am, Thomas Kirchner <lists@××××××××.org> |
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> wrote: |
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> > On Dec 3 23:07, James Colannino wrote: |
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> > > I usually just su to root and edit /etc/group manually. Not sure if |
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> > > that's a good idea or not, but hey, I haven't had any problems yet ;) |
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> > It's not the worst thing in the world, I've done it plenty of times. |
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> > The better way is to use vigr (and vipw for /etc/passwd) to edit |
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> > group/shadow files. It makes sure that the file doesn't get corrupted |
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> > in the process of editing. |
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> What package are those from? (qpkg -I -f `which vigr` ; qpkg -I -f `which |
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> vipw) I don't seem to have them on my system. |
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as vigr and vipw are in /usr/sbin, its likely that which vigr is failing |
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if you are joe user, as they will not be in your path. |
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as root: |
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sf linux # qpkg -f `which vigr` |
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sys-apps/shadow * |
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as nick: |
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nick@sf nick $ qpkg -f `which vigr` |
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which: no vigr in |
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(/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3:/opt/Acrobat5:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/opt/vmware/bin) |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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