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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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.ACO.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New User Admin Date: 9 Jan 1996 10:46:15 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4cth1n$cf6@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <4caoal$bpa@news2.realtime.net> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <4caoal$bpa@news2.realtime.net>, Dave Brown <dhbrown@bga.com> wrote: > 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? If you read passwd(5), you'll see that /etc/passwd is obsolete and here just for old programs. It is automatically generated from master.passwd. You need to use either vipw(8) or chsh(8) to change the user's shell. [ cc'ed to Dave ] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-