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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 2000 22:59:20 +0100
From:      Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta <megarcia@intercom.es>
To:        Sam Carleton <scarleton@bigfoot.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: manually changing users shell
Message-ID:  <20001119225920.C584@ilex.kicelo.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A184B47.7CB5F3C7@bigfoot.com>
References:  <3A184B47.7CB5F3C7@bigfoot.com>

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	Sam,

=== Sam Carleton escribia
(Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:51:03PM -0500):

> Ok, I give.  I modified both the /etc/passwd and the /etc/master.passwd
> files, but the shell still does not change.  I am trying to change the
> shell from /bin/sh to /bin/tcsh.  Both shells are in the /etc/shells
> file.  How do I go about manually changing a users shell?

	The canonical procedure is, as root:

vipw

	and edit the shell field there.
> 
> Sam

	HTH

				Manuel Garcia



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