On 07/12/12 03:59, Daniel Micay wrote:
You can use vipw and vigr to safely edit the passwd and group files with
your editor of choice, and make the changes (or use the cli utilities
instead). There's no need to manually edit shadow/gshadow, you can update
them by running pwconv and grpconv which will generate them by merging
passwd with the current shadow, and group with the current gshadow.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:55 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
Having read the available postings in arch-dev-public as well as those on
this subject in the arch forums I am somewhat confused as to how to
complete the merge for /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group and /etc/gshadow
for the new entries in the .pacnew files.
For example in my old /etc/passwd I have the line:
dbus:x:81:81:System message bus:/:/bin/false
and in the pacnew file I have:
dbus:x:81:81:dbus:/:/sbin/nologin
Should I put the line from the .pacnew file into the old file?
Also for uidd I have in the original:
uuidd:x:999:999::/:/sbin/nologin
but in the pacnew file it is:
uuidd:x:68:68:uuidd:/:/sbin/nologin
Should I change the uid in the original file to 68 - and do the same in the
corresponding entries for shadow, group and gshadow?
I am an old linux user and usually I can sort things out after an upgrade
but this time I am really confused.
Any expert advice very much appreciated - thanks.
--
mike c
vipw and vigr don't seem to do anything for me. It doesn't matter what
changes I make, they both report that nothing was changed.
# vipw
(Makes changes in $EDITOR, writes and quits)
vipw: no changes made
vipw: /etc/passwd unchanged
?
