Creating Super User

I'd never heard of the command before so I just typed man vipw into my
mandrake 7.0 box at home and it was on there.

I think that I would go with your (Hans) solution first. They would end up
locking the passwd file for a lot less time than just editing it.

Brian Cluff
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> Is vipw available for Linux? I don't think I've ever seen it on a Linux
> dist. Then again [user|group][add|mod|del] provides all you need and does
> a lot more than vipw.