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From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: how do I modify passwd entries?
Date: 18 Oct 1995 19:03:05 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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Message-ID: <463j19$q03@overload.lbl.gov>
References: <4616mf$2ub@shellx.best.com> <SCOTTE.95Oct18073931@odie.center.uscs.com>
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In article <SCOTTE.95Oct18073931@odie.center.uscs.com>,
L. Scott Emmons <scotte@center.uscs.com> wrote:
>In article <4616mf$2ub@shellx.best.com> paigen@shellx.best.com (David Paigen) writes:
>
>> But what do I do about old user accounts that need to
>> be changed?  I need to change the login directory of
>> one user.  Can I do this by hand?
>
>Yes. Use "vipw".

	chsh $USER

may be easier for changing a single one.

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