[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:43:12PM +1000, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:35:30AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:22:26AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > > 
> > > > How would you do it any way, since usermod won't work for logged in
> > > > users.
> > > 
> > > vi /etc/passwd
> > 
> > Stupid me.  When vi wouldn't let me save before, I assumed it was some
> > fancy system that was interfering.  Turns out a simple permission change
> > fixed it.
> 
> Or even easier/better, in vi use  :w!  which will force the write regardless
> of permissions (presuming the user is correct, etc).

I never knew that.  Ya learn something new every day.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd