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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!psgrain!iafrica.com!ticsa.com!cstatd.cstat.co.za!aztec.co.za!usenet From: root@hornet.netac.co.za (Charlie &) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New User Admin Date: 3 Jan 1996 10:33:26 GMT Organization: Aztec Public Access Internet Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4cdm1m$dcs@aztec.co.za> References: <4caoal$bpa@news2.realtime.net> <dhawkDKKHp5.3GL@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hornet.netac.co.za X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In article <dhawkDKKHp5.3GL@netcom.com>, dhawk@netcom.com (David H) writes: >In article <4caoal$bpa@news2.realtime.net>, Dave Brown <dhbrown@bga.com> wrote: >>First, since I never liked the c-shell, I downloaded the bash port and >>compiled it. Okay, so now, I want to make bash my login shell. I change >>that in field 6 of the /etc/passwd file and guess what... c-shell is still >>the login shell... huh? > >As root do vipw >and change the shell >/etc/passwd is not the real passwd file. just be sure to add /usr/local/bin/bash (or wherever your copy of Bash went) to the file /etc/shells (which lists valid login shells for users) - If it's there already, don't worry about it. Tony