Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 11:22:40 -0700 From: Woody Carey <carey@roguewave.com> To: "'Peter Brezny'" <peter@shorthair.purplecat.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: /etc/passwd Message-ID: <EB55BCC162CAD111BD0A00A0C9979E3201944BFD@cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com>
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No. Use vipw. Use vipw. Use vipw, or if you just want to change the shell, I believe there exists a chsh command to do this. > > 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
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