bin/30424: Generalization of vipw(8) to lock pwdb while being edited by a script

[Jilles Tjoelker]

The following reply was made to PR bin/30424; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles at stack.nl>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, alan at batie.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/30424: Generalization of vipw(8) to lock pwdb while being
 edited by a script
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:50:55 +0200

 Is there any reason you need a special option in vipw(8) to run (in
 effect) a different editor, when temporarily changing the EDITOR
 environment variable would do the same?
 
 Also, the pw(8) utility may be useful, allowing various modifications to
 the passwd database more easily.
 
 -- 
 Jilles Tjoelker