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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!wuff.mayn.de!wuff.franken.de!not-for-mail From: Matthias Buelow <token@altair.franken.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Changing User's shell in FreebSD Date: 15 Apr 1997 05:21:04 +0200 Organization: KNF e.V / GeFoekoM e.V. Wuerzburg Lines: 20 Message-ID: <87912lynrx.fsf@altair.franken.de> References: <3352E14E.41C67EA6@cyberusa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.franken.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39074 "Jon E. Kump" <jkump@cyberusa.com> writes: > > I need help changing my user's shells on my FreeBSD 2.2 machine. When I > edit the passwd file with the new shell and logoff and back on I'm still > using the old shell. The new one does not take effect. But if I delete > the user and the readd the user with the new shell everything is just > fine. Every other version of U*IX that I have used all I had to do was > change the passwd file. chsh(1) Although editing passwd should do the trick, too. Are you sure you used vipw(8) to modify passwd? -- --token ``Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my harddrive.'' - Arthur C. Clarke, imagining the first words of HAL