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Date:      Wed, 5 May 1999 14:16:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Brezny <peter@shorthair.purplecat.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   /etc/passwd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905051413250.15334-100000@shorthair.purplecat.net>

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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



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