]> Marek Michałkiewicz Creation, 1997 Thomas Kłoczko kloczek@pld.org.pl shadow-utils maintainer, 2000 - 2007 Nicolas François nicolas.francois@centraliens.net shadow-utils maintainer, 2007 - now vipw 8 System Management Commands shadow-utils &SHADOW_UTILS_VERSION; vipw vigr edit the password, group, shadow-password or shadow-group file vipw options vigr options 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. 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. Only absolute paths are supported. -s, --shadow Edit shadow or gshadow database. -u, --user Indicates which user's tcb shadow file to edit. The following configuration variables in /etc/login.defs change the behavior of this tool: &USE_TCB; VISUAL Editor to be used. EDITOR Editor to be used if VISUAL is not set. /etc/group Group account information. /etc/gshadow Secure group account information. /etc/passwd User account information. /etc/shadow Secure user account information. vi1 , group5 , gshadow5 login.defs5 , passwd5 , tcb5 , shadow5 .