[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

[Scott Howard]

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).

  Scott