Bug 423541

Summary:	how can i force editing of the shadow password file?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andrew Cagney <cagney>
Component:	shadow-utils	Assignee:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	kzak, tmraz
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Description Andrew Cagney 2007-12-13 15:17:04 UTC

I, due to another problem, needed to edit the shadow password file; but vipw on
its own without edits won't touch it.

Can at least an option be added to let me do this.

(oh, and what does the -V option do? the man page mentions it but doesn't
explain it)

Comment 1 Karel Zak 2008-01-07 12:02:20 UTC

The -V option is synonym of --version.

vipw(8) asks for shadow password file after you make a change to the standard
/etc/passwd. Or do you need to edit only /etc/shadow?

(Note, I won't to add any new option to vipw(1) from util-linux-ng. This command
is deprecated in favor of vipw from shadow-utils in Fedora 9.)

Comment 2 Andrew Cagney 2008-01-07 17:05:08 UTC

I only need to edit the shadow password file.

Comment 3 Peter Vrabec 2008-05-13 13:32:18 UTC

Andrew, I'm sorry I won't add any new option. You can edit shadow right after 
you quit passwd by ":wq". If you are not OK with this, feel free to open 
discussion on pkg-shadow-devel.debian.org