Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I add a user to a group without deleting from all others?

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 08:22 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Saturday 04 December 2004 06:56 am, Thomas Kirchner <lists@halffull.org> 
> wrote:
> > On Dec  3 23:07, James Colannino wrote:
> > > I usually just su to root and edit /etc/group manually.  Not sure if
> > > that's a good idea or not, but hey, I haven't had any problems yet ;)
> >
> > It's not the worst thing in the world, I've done it plenty of times. 
> > The better way is to use vigr (and vipw for /etc/passwd) to edit
> > group/shadow files.  It makes sure that the file doesn't get corrupted
> > in the process of editing.
> 
> What package are those from?  (qpkg -I -f `which vigr` ; qpkg -I -f `which 
> vipw)  I don't seem to have them on my system.

as vigr and vipw are in /usr/sbin, its likely that which vigr is failing
if you are joe user, as they will not be in your path.

as root:
sf linux # qpkg -f `which vigr`
sys-apps/shadow *

as nick:
nick@sf nick $ qpkg -f `which vigr`
which: no vigr in
(/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3:/opt/Acrobat5:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/opt/vmware/bin)



> 
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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>


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