From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 0:36:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2016914C49 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA13730; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 03:36:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 02:36:39 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Dean Hamstead Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash In-Reply-To: <002d01beb95a$f975e180$c20c29cb@supadad> 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 Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Dean Hamstead wrote: > ive compiled bash and installed it > when i run bash after ive logged in it works like a dream > > but when i set it as by prompt in /etc/passwd is just seems to ignore the > entry.... is there a file or something i have to register it as a valid > shell?? In BSD we use "vipw" to edit the password file. :) also, note that the full path to bash should be in /etc/shells. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net] systems administrator and programmer Win Telecom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message