vigr

edit the password, group, shadow-password or shadow-group file

Synopsis

vipw [options]

vigr [options]

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examples

source

            
  /usr/sbin/vigr \


  /usr/sbin/vipw \


  /usr/share/man/man1/chfn.1 \


  /usr/share/man/man1/chsh.1 \


  /usr/share/man/man1/login.1 \


  /usr/share/man/man8/vigr.8 \


  /usr/share/man/man8/vipw.8 \


  /usr/share/man/man3/getspnam.3 \


  /usr/share/man/man5/passwd.5 \

description

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).

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 , group, gshadow , passwd , , shadow.