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[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Stephen McCullough wrote:

> Edit the /etc/passwd file.
>
> foo:x:1000:1000:Joe Bloggs,,,;/home/foo:/bin/whatever
> 			      ---------
>
> Also usermod -d does this.

if you were an admin here you'd be shot.. :)

always always use the tools like chsh, chfn, usermod to make changes
like that.

and in the unusual cases where you absolutely must edit passwd
directly, use vipw.

--paulj