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VIPW
Section: System Management Commands (8) Updated: 05/17/2017 Index
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NAME
vipw, vigr - edit the password, group, shadow-password or shadow-group file
SYNOPSIS
-
vipw [options]
-
vigr [options]
DESCRIPTION
The
vipw
and
vigr
commands edits 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.
-R, --root CHROOT_DIR
-
Apply changes in the
CHROOT_DIR
directory and use the configuration files from the
CHROOT_DIR
directory.
-s, --shadow
-
Edit shadow or gshadow database.
ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL
-
Editor to be used.
EDITOR
-
Editor to be used if
VISUAL
is not set.
FILES
/etc/group
-
Group account information.
/etc/gshadow
-
Secure group account information.
/etc/passwd
-
User account information.
/etc/shadow
-
Secure user account information.
SEE ALSO
vi(1),
group(5),
gshadow(5)
,
passwd(5), ,
shadow(5).
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- ENVIRONMENT
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
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