From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jan 6 07:00:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA27856 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 07:00:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA27841 Sat, 6 Jan 1996 07:00:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 07:00:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199601061500.HAA27841@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: J Wunsch Subject: Re: misc/933: "chpass -s" to change shell does not work Reply-To: J Wunsch Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR misc/933; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch To: taob@io.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/933: "chpass -s" to change shell does not work Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 15:54:34 +0100 (MET) As taob@io.org wrote: > > Using "chpass -s " or "chsh -s " to change a user's > login shell causes a rebuild of the passwd databases, but no changes > are visible in /etc/passwd or /etc/master.passwd. Neither did -p or -a work. The YP initialization happened after the option-specific settings have already been performed, and hence the new entries were clobbered. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)