From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 11:15:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shorthair.purplecat.net (ns1.purplecat.net [208.206.222.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B43151D7 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 11:15:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@shorthair.purplecat.net) Received: from localhost (peter@localhost) by shorthair.purplecat.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15368 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 14:16:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from peter@shorthair.purplecat.net) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 14:16:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Brezny To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /etc/passwd Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG why when i make changes to /etc/passwd using pico, things visibly change, but changing someone's shell from nologin to bash seems to make no functional changes. i've been clued into using vipw, however, isn't there a way to edit this file functionally using any old text editor? thanks. Peter Brezny purplecat.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message