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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Path: sparky!uunet!oceania!john
- From: john@oceania.com (John Robison)
- Subject: Re: A non-root user running UserManager?
- Message-ID: <Bs2BLM.Lux@oceania.com>
- Sender: john@oceania.com (John Robison)
- Reply-To: john@oceania.com
- Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems
- References: <Bs0Cq5.CGM@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Distribution: na
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:32:10 GMT
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- If you don't want to hassle with faking out security,
- thus making your installation less secure,
- you can always edit password entries the "old fashioned"
- way, using your favorite text editor.
-
- For example:
- 1) nidump passwd . > /tmp/xxx
- 2) vi /tmp/xxx
- 3) niload -p passwd . < /tmp/xxx
-
- Note that the "-p" option prompts you for a password.
- I do not think you have to be in the wheel group for
- this method.
-
- Simple UI is great for the majority of easy cases,
- but for those exceptions, sometimes the command
- line is your only option. :-(
-
- Later,
-
- John
- --
- John Robison - Oceania Health Care Systems
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- #ifdef OPINION
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