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Old 10-25-2008
Creating a copy of the /etc/passwd file
Is there a command for creating a copy of the /etc/passwd file named "./copy-passwd" that contains only the entries for userids that have a home directory in /home/inst, and change each entry in your copy so that the default login shell is /bin/sh.
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Old 10-25-2008
I believe the command I'm looking for is something like /etc/passwd | sed, but I'm not familiar with using sed to create a file by changing the properties of another file.
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Old 10-25-2008
anyone?
 
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