vipw man page on Peanut

vipw man page on Peanut

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VIPW(8)			  System Management Commands		       VIPW(8)

NAME
       vipw, vigr - edit the password, group, shadow-password or shadow-group
       file.

SYNOPSIS
       vipw [options]

       vigr [options]

DESCRIPTION
       vipw and vigr will edit the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group,
       respectively. With the -s flag, they will edit the shadow versions of
       those files, /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, respectively. The programs
       will set the appropriate locks to prevent file corruption. When looking
       for an editor, the programs will first try the environment variable
       $VISUAL, then the environment variable $EDITOR, and finally the default
       editor, vi(1).

OPTIONS
       The options which apply to the vipw and vigr commands are:

       -g, --group
	      Edit group database.

       -h, --help
	      Display help message and exit.

       -p, --passwd
	      Edit passwd database.

       -q, --quiet
	      Quiet mode database.

       -s, --shadow
	      Edit shadow or gshadow database.

FILES
       /etc/group
	      group account information

       /etc/gshadow
	      shadow group file

       /etc/passwd
	      user account information

       /etc/shadow
	      secure user account information

SEE ALSO
       vi(1), group(5), gshadow(5)passwd(5), shadow(5).

System Management Commands	  12/07/2005			       VIPW(8)

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