From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 13:36:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C911814ED9 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:36:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11tdsJ-000CWB-00; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:34:51 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA95536; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:34:50 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:34:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Phil Homewood , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root shell/toor shell 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 Well, using chsh from toor tells me i am actually editing the root password entry. The /etc/shells has 4 shells listed, all in their proper places. But i still cannot seem to edit toor's entry. In /etc/passwd, the entry and password for toor is different. But for the login shell, the entry is blank. I assum it uses the one for root here, and that may be the problem. Isn't there command i have to run if i decide to edit /etc/passwd directly? On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Annelise Anderson wrote: >You have two choices. > > 1) Investigate your files to find out what's going on. >Look at your password file, /etc/shells, all your dot files, and >all the shells themselves, and your environmental variables. >Somewhere something's set up or aliased or linked or something. >Figure it out. > > 2) Reinstall. > >Annelise > >On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > >> This is really irritating. I am logging in from a clear terminal screen >> (not using su) and i changed the shell for toor. When i logged in as >> root, that shell was also changed. >> >> >> -jm >> >> ------------------ >> Bayliss: "And that's another thing... >> you never say 'please' and 'thank you.'" >> >> Pendleton: "Please stop being an idiot. Thank you." >> > > -jm ------------------ Bayliss: "And that's another thing... you never say 'please' and 'thank you.'" Pendleton: "Please stop being an idiot. Thank you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message