Re: Editing fields in /etc/passwd

[Frank Ranner]

David E. Nelson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Looking through 'editfiles', I'm not seeing an easy way to edit a single 
> field in /etc/passwd - I need to change the primary group for one 
> account.  I can't just replace the entire line since the Gecos and home 
> dir aren't consistent across systems.  Any ideas?
>
> It'd be nice if there was an edit command that used a sed-like syntax 
> that allowed backreferences.
>
> Thanks,
>      /\/elson

Use 'usermod' in a shellcommands section. You could set a class based on 
a grep for the old contents, then use that class to trigger the usermod 
command.

Regards
Frank Ranner