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[Øyvind Lode]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:04 PM -0400 Nalin Dahyabhai 
> <nalin at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > If you're looking to do it with a text editor, the vipw(8) and 
> > vigr(8) commands are handy.
>
> What about us Emacs users? :D

: Set the EDITOR environment variable.  Invoke vipw to get the locking
feature and you get to use your favorite editor to : 

What is this "locking": munge the file contents. feature anyway?
Can anyone explain this to a newbie why it's important not to forget the
locking thing after editing a file...

Øyvind