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bahua

6y

Fuck you, debian. The command is "vipw," not fucking "nanopw."

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nano eats its own shit

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Technically, the command behaves more like “$EDITORordefaultalternativeforeditorcommandpw”. The default behavior of vipw, visudo and all those tools is to use $EDITOR or $VISUAL as the editor if they're set, not forcefully vi.

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