From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 11:22:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from crydee.sai.msu.ru (crydee.sai.msu.ru [195.208.220.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0AE8152A7 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 11:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru) Received: from localhost (asv1@localhost) by crydee.sai.msu.ru (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA03391 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 21:24:38 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 21:24:38 +0400 (MSD) From: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/passwd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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