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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to change Shell? Date: 18 Jan 1997 22:45:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5brjr4$30b@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5bgcem$ia3@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <5bh6c5$9mh@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34199 c9415019@maths.newcastle.edu.au (Russell Davies) wrote: > 2) simply edit the /etc/passwd file and change the field containing > the shell which is invoked when you login (typically the last field) Of course, but this is only for an exercise in using vi. It won't have any effect, and in fact, it will be clobbered again next time you're using vipw. (hint hint :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)