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VIPW(8) System Management Commands VIPW(8)
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.
-s, --shadow
Edit shadow or gshadow database.
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.
vi(1), group(5), gshadow(5) , passwd(5), , shadow(5).
This page is part of the shadow-utils (utilities for managing
accounts and shadow password files) project. Information about the
project can be found at ⟨http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/⟩. If
you have a bug report for this manual page, see
⟨http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/getinvolved.php⟩. This page was
obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-shadow/shadow.git⟩ on 2017-07-05.
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shadow-utils 4.4 07/05/2017 VIPW(8)