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Re: Editing fields in /etc/passwd
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Adrian Phillips |
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Re: Editing fields in /etc/passwd |
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Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:13:58 +0200 |
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>>>>> "David" == David E Nelson <david.nelson@ni.com> writes:
David> Looking through 'editfiles', I'm not seeing an easy way to
David> edit a single field in /etc/passwd - I need to change the
David> primary group for one account. I can't just replace the
David> entire line since the Gecos and home dir aren't consistent
David> across systems. Any ideas?
Won't something like the following work :-
ReplaceAll "^<user>:x:<groupid>:" With "<user>:x:<new groupid>:"
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
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