[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#688252: vipw uses vi by default; should use /usr/bin/editor

[Ben Harris]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.1.5.1-1
Severity: minor

Policy section 11.4 says that every program that launches an editor should 
fall back to /usr/bin/editor.  vipw, though, always falls back to "vi".

Fixing this is trivial in the code, but slightly more involved in the 
documentation since all the translated man pages for vipw(8) need to be 
updated.

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Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service.