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Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Thu Sep 16 07:54:08 UTC 2004


--On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:15 PM -0400 Matthew Saltzman 
<mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:

> Set the EDITOR environment variable.  Invoke vipw to get the locking
> feature and you get to use your favorite editor to munge the file
> contents.

Cool! Works great!

Alas, if I su, EDITOR becomes undefined. But if I su -l, it's defined 
correctly (as it's in root's .bash_profile. What do I need to do to keep 
the variable when I don't use the -l?






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