Solarais Commands to Delete particular lines from a file

smilee4smile · #1 (**permalink**) 11-14-07, 03:49

Hi,
How to delete lines which are having **'s in a shadow file. In solaris OS.

Thanks & Regards,
Sunil :-)

pdreyer · #2 (**permalink**) 11-15-07, 03:00

Why?
pwconv - updates /etc/shadow with information from /etc/passwd

smilee4smile · #3 (**permalink**) 11-16-07, 03:04

Thank you for the Reply PDreyer.
Actually my requirement is like this. I Need to delete login accounts which are not used for longtime, i.e accounts which are having **.
How to list the login accounts with the expirey date comment wise, so that i can delete the expired accounts.

Thanks