vipw(8) - Linux man page
Name
vipw, vigr - edit the password, group, shadow-password or shadow-group file
Synopsis
vipw [options]
- vigr [options]
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.
- -s, --shadow
- Edit shadow or gshadow database.
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(1), group(5), gshadow(5) passwd(5), shadow(5).