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From: | Frank Ranner |
Subject: | Re: Editing fields in /etc/passwd |
Date: | Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:50:42 +1000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) |
David E. Nelson wrote:
Hi All,Looking through 'editfiles', I'm not seeing an easy way to edit a single field in /etc/passwd - I need to change the primary group for one account. I can't just replace the entire line since the Gecos and home dir aren't consistent across systems. Any ideas?It'd be nice if there was an edit command that used a sed-like syntax that allowed backreferences.Thanks, /\/elson
Use 'usermod' in a shellcommands section. You could set a class based on a grep for the old contents, then use that class to trigger the usermod command.
Regards Frank Ranner
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