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| author | brooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-10-20 19:23:16 +0000 |
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| committer | brooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-10-20 19:23:16 +0000 |
| commit | bf4cb5aab0f39d9b5af892511cf500a571287bc5 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c5b5a92eb34f25fcabc58d29742ff7a8d1b4fd3 /usr.sbin/vipw | |
| parent | 6db27f35d6919db9dad1f47276bc708a54cae33f (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-bf4cb5aab0f39d9b5af892511cf500a571287bc5.zip FreeBSD-src-bf4cb5aab0f39d9b5af892511cf500a571287bc5.tar.gz | |
Mention the possibility of non-interactive scripts for EDITOR and add a
BUGS section mentioning the requirement that such scripts run "sleep 1"
or equivalent to work reliably.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/vipw')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 b/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 index 19eafaf..2e06321 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 @@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ The editor specified by the string .Ev EDITOR will be invoked instead of the default editor .Xr vi 1 . +This can be used to allow a script to non-interactively modify the +password file. .It Ev PW_SCAN_BIG_IDS See .Xr pwd_mkdb 8 . @@ -108,3 +110,10 @@ The .Nm utility appeared in .Bx 4.0 . +.Sh BUGS +The mechanism for checking for password file modifications requires that +.Ev EDITOR +run for at least one second. +Non-interactive editor scripts should invoke +.Xr sleep 1 +or equivalent to insure this happens. |
