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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!span.ch!imp.ch!sunqbc.risq.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!newsfeed.pitt.edu!jlfox From: jlfox+@pitt.edu (James L Fox) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Delete or modify user, how? Date: 20 Jul 1996 05:36:01 GMT Organization: University of Pittsburgh Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4spr81$me6@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> References: <31ED60CE.4F28@best.com> <4sl92a$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: unixs-eval.cis.pitt.edu In article <4sl92a$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: <Chris Millikin <chrism@best.com> wrote: < < <Modifying is easy. Use vipw(8) to modify more than a single user, or <chsh(1) to modify the account data for a single user. Any ordinary <user may edit a limited subset of his own data with chsh, while the <admin may modify everything. < I'm running 2.1.0 but have no luck changing my shell from csh to sh using chsh. I get the "..database being updated.." message but it never happens. /etc/passwd still says "csh" !