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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 01:05:51 -0600
To: "Miten N. Mehta" <mmehta@cs.tamu.edu>, questions@freeBSD.org
From: Allen Hyer <allenh@wtrt.net>
Subject: Re: problem
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At 12:31 AM 12/24/96 -0600, Miten N. Mehta wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am facing a problem with login of users with "tcsh"
>
>I recently installed FreeBSD on my machine(pentium pc). Initially I 
>created one user before I installed "tcsh" so I had given shell of it as 
>"csh". There after I installed tcsh and then I created 4-5 more users 
>with default shell as "tcsh". And everything was fine. Then I wanted to 
>change the shell of the first user who was given "csh".
>
>I did not know how to do that, but then I changed the entries in 
>/etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd files by changing "csh" to "tcsh".

Don't edit these files directly.  Use vipw instead.



Allen Hyer
System Administrator
West Texas Rural Telephone