On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:04:49AM +0100, Mel wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > perl -pi -e "s^/home/guest^/local/guest^" /etc/passwd
> generally a bad idea. why? Because it doesn't take into account that all
> your passwd information might not be local as is the case with NIS with yp
yes.
> Besides, in a fit of been a pendant because it's 2 in the morning and I'm
> in literal mode, the above one-liner will match lines that have guest as a
> subset of the username like guestftp, guestshell, guestsamba, guesttemp
> and so on. Unlikely he has such users, but possible
yes, but easily solved:
perl -pi -e 's":/home/guest(:[^:]*)$":/local/guest$1"' /etc/passwd
but chsh or other solutions are better.
kevin
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