vipw (8)
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Title: vipw
Author: Marek Michałkiewicz
Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
Date: 08/20/2017
Manual: System Management Commands
Source: shadow-utils 4.2
Language: English
NAME
vipw, vigr - edit the password, group, shadow-password or shadow-group fileSYNOPSIS
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vipw [options]
- vigr [options]
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
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.
-s, --shadow
- Edit shadow or gshadow database.
ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL
- Editor to be used.
EDITOR
- Editor to be used if VISUAL is not set.
FILES
/etc/group
- Group account information.
/etc/gshadow
- Secure group account information.
/etc/passwd
- User account information.
/etc/shadow
- Secure user account information.
SEE ALSO
vi(1), group(5), gshadow(5) , passwd(5), , shadow(5).