SVR3 passwd changes mode of passwd file

[Roger B.A. Klorese]

In article <423 at fciva.FRANKLIN.COM> dag at fciva.UUCP (Daniel A. Graifer) writes:
>In article <3441 at dunkshot.mips.COM> dce at dunkshot.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>> ... (I know,
>>vi'ing the password file is wrong, but we haven't had time to add a vipw
>>program yet).
>Ooops...this is what I do all the time.  Why is it wrong?  Where do I get
>vipw?

BSD.

(In MIPS' case, it means that that's a program we haven't yet tackled on the
path to our merged RISC/os kernel.)

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