On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:04 PM -0400 Nalin Dahyabhai > <nalin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > If you're looking to do it with a text editor, the vipw(8) and > > vigr(8) commands are handy. > > What about us Emacs users? :D : Set the EDITOR environment variable. Invoke vipw to get the locking feature and you get to use your favorite editor to : What is this "locking": munge the file contents. feature anyway? Can anyone explain this to a newbie why it's important not to forget the locking thing after editing a file... Øyvind
