Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:9408 comp.bugs.sys5:577 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!spdcc!mipseast!rogerk 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 Lines: 18 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.) -- Roger B.A. Klorese MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!rogerk 25 Burlington Mall Rd, Suite 300 rogerk@mips.COM (rogerk%mips.COM@ames.arc.nasa.gov) Burlington, MA 01803 I don't think we're in toto any more, Kansas... +1 617 270-0613