Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 21:24:38 +0400 (MSD) From: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" <asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/passwd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905052122060.3302-100000@crydee.sai.msu.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905051413250.15334-100000@shorthair.purplecat.net>
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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Peter Brezny wrote: > 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? See `man vipw'. Clue: EDITOR=pico; export EDITOR; vipw --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Sergey Ayukov Sternberg Astronomical Institute http://www.ayukov.com Moscow, Russia http://crydee.sai.msu.ru/index-asv.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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