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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers etc/passwd help Post 302590121 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 14th of January 2012 07:06:37 AM
Old 01-14-2012
ls shows directory contents (files) not users. Not the content of files, just information like filename, size, who owns it, and file permissions

cat displays a file, with no special formatting. /etc/passwd is a colon delimited file, meaning each field (username, uid, gid, etc) is delimited or set apart by the colon character. frappa's answer gave you the same result that you will get from cat /etc/passwd, a mess of stuff on the screen.

You need to find and carefully read a basic UNIX reference on the internet, your absolute best choice would be one in your native language.
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vino-passwd

vino-passwd(1)							   User Commands						    vino-passwd(1)

NAME

       vino-passwd - change vino login password

SYNOPSIS

       vino-passwd [--help] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       vino-passwd is a command line tool to change the vino login password.

OPTIONS

       These  programs	follow	the  usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options for the
       command vino-passwd is included below.

       -?, --help	       display this help and exit

       -v, --version	       output version information and exit

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-remote-desktop	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       vino-server(1), vino-preferences(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Halton Huo, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    15 Aug 2008 						    vino-passwd(1)
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