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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help on NIS client Date: 10 Jul 1996 17:29:42 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4s0pa6$ngs@overload.lbl.gov> References: <4qumb6$pk6@overload.lbl.gov> <4qvo0e$9me@uhura.phoenix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov In article <4qvo0e$9me@uhura.phoenix.net>, Paul Flores <pflores@alpha1.phoenix.net> wrote: >Might be too simple, but I will ask anyway... > >Did you remember the +:::::::: in the passwd file? It sounds like simple, but it is not quite simple. By appending +:::::::: at the end of the passwd file, it does not work. Only vipw makes it work. That was the problem. Now, I'd like to get help on add such user +:::::::: to the passwd database from a script, not using interactive vipw. I know vipw can use ed, and ed can use in-line input in sh. However, EDITOR=ed can be set only in csh, not in sh; and csh doesn't have in-line input (? right), so, +:::::::: cannot be autotically add into passwd database (not just the file). Does any one know that any way or program can do such jobs? Thanks, -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |