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From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Problems
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Date: 20 Jul 92 20:44:08 GMT
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In article <MeO7AOq00WB413Q29e@andrew.cmu.edu>, tj2n+@andrew.cmu.edu
(Tao Jiang) writes:
>
>I have a couple of questions during my using of 386bsd.
>
>1; I tried to use chsh and edit the passwd and master.passwd tp change
>the login shell, but they did not work. How can I chnage the login
>shell?
>
>2: Probably, the same problem as above, I could not add a new user
>by editing the passwd and master.passwd files.  What's the way to
>do it?
>
>Thanks!

A friend of mine had a similar problem.  He solved it by using 'vipw'.

-- 
Gary Browning        | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
		     | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
                     | what is wrong with it.