Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 267

VIPW(8)
MAINTENANCE COMMANDS VIPW(8)
NAME
vipw - edit the password file
SYNOPSIS
/ete/vlpw
DESCRIPTION
Vipwedits the password file while setting the appropriate locks, and does any necessary processing
after the password file is unlocked. If the password file is already being edited, then you will be
told to try again later. The vi editor will be used unless the environment variable EDITOR indi-
cates an alternate editor. Vipw performs a number of consistency checks on the password entry
for
root,
and will not allow a password file with a "mangled" root entry to be installed.
SEE ALSO
chsh(I), passwd(I), passwd(5), adduser(8)
FILES
/etc/ptmp
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Last change: 4 July 1983
Sun Release 1.1