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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: SVR3 passwd changes mode of passwd file
Message-ID: <512@mipseast.mips.COM>
Date: 24 Sep 88 02:07:26 GMT
References: <3394@dunkshot.mips.COM> <1235@cbnews.ATT.COM> <3441@dunkshot.mips.COM> <423@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM>
Reply-To: rogerk@mipseast.mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., Burlington, MA
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In article <423@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM> dag@fciva.UUCP (Daniel A. Graifer) writes:
>In article <3441@dunkshot.mips.COM> dce@dunkshot.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>> ... (I know,
>>vi'ing the password file is wrong, but we haven't had time to add a vipw
>>program yet).
>Ooops...this is what I do all the time.  Why is it wrong?  Where do I get
>vipw?

BSD.

(In MIPS' case, it means that that's a program we haven't yet tackled on the
path to our merged RISC/os kernel.)

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