From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 5 21:58:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26556 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 21:58:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26531 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 21:58:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA23484; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:28:20 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA09531; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:28:19 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980806142819.D9468@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:28:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Woody Carey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there a different result using vipw and chsh? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Woody Carey on Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 01:38:41PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 5 August 1998 at 13:38:41 +0000, Woody Carey wrote: > > Is there a difference in the result between changing a users shell with > chsh, and using vipw? No. You can do more things with vipw, but if you can do it with chsh, the result will be the same as if you had done it with vipw. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message