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ericx

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Registered: 2016-01-05

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vipw -s

The command vipw does not appear to have an -s option on Arch?
Is there a different tool to edit shadow?

Slithery

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Re: vipw -s

Which aspect of the shadow file do you want to modify?

How about...

vi /etc/shadow

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ericx

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Re: vipw -s

Well.. That's more or less what I did; but one misses out on the nifty file locking et al. that vipw provides.

Has vipw been deprecated or some such?

Trilby

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Re: vipw -s

`man flock`

What distributions of vipw have a flag to edit shadow?

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WorMzy

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Re: vipw -s

Some distros use shadow-utils to provide vipw (among other commands): https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow

Arch uses util-linux: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/ut … linux.git/

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