[PLUG] alias users

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Don Buchholz wrote:

> The simplest way (for a few accounts) is to directly edit the /etc/passwd
> and /etc/shadow files.  (You might want to: (a) make sure the originals
> are safe, (b) no other admin is working on user accounts, and (c) no
> end-users are trying to change their password while doing this work.) If
> you've got a bunch (more than 20-30), you may want to use a small script
> to help.

Don,

  Why wouldn't one use pwunconv to remove the shadow password file first?
Then, after dinking around with the password file, run pwconv to regenerate
the shadow file from the one, changed one?

Rich

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