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From: jep@fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: vipw - the program
Message-ID: <218@fantasci.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 88 02:37:55 GMT
Reply-To: jep@fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski)
Organization: Fantasci Incorporated
Lines: 49

For those of you who were looking for a copy of 'vipw', here is one that I
wrote.  I want to thank Mike Khaw (mkhaw@teknowledge.arpa) for his suggestions
on what the program should do.

Here it is:

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# vipw
#
# program to edit the password file. will not allow editing if /etc/ptmp exists.
#
# written by: Jo Poplawski  jep@fantasci.UUCP
#

if [ "n$EDITOR" = "n" ]
then
	EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
fi

if [ -f "/etc/ptmp" ]
then
	echo ""
	echo "/etc/passwd being used, please try again in a few minutes..."
	echo ""
	exit 1
else
	cat /dev/null >/etc/ptmp
	cp /etc/passwd /etc/ptmp
	$EDITOR /etc/ptmp
	cp /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old
	mv /etc/ptmp /etc/passwd
	chown root /etc/passwd
	chgrp sys  /etc/passwd
	chmod 444  /etc/passwd
	chmod 000  /etc/passwd.old
fi
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Enjoy,

-Jo

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