UNIX registry editing

Unix doesn't have a registry. Sounds like they either don't know what they are talking about, or it's a trick question. (Probably the latter)
 
Yep, there is no such thing as the "registry" in *nix. However, that's a great interview question... I'd love to see some candidates that have tried to blag their way through an interview coming up with some answer as to how they'd edit the registry on a unix box :D

There could well be some application that writes its config to a database, which is all the Windows registry is really. But the OS doesn't use that, unlike on a Windows machine.
 
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