From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 20 2:42:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag1p26.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872BF10E69 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 02:42:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: (from jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA05004; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:41:47 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:41:47 +1100 From: Jim Mock To: Langa Kentane Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'ruan@ctech.ac.za'" Subject: Re: Can't change shell - Please help newbie Message-ID: <19990220214147.A4997@corp.au.triax.com> Reply-To: jim@corp.au.triax.com References: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F318178030416@za12nt02.mweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F318178030416@za12nt02.mweb.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 at 12:19:46 +0200, Langa Kentane wrote: > I am using FreeBSD-3.0. I have recently installed bash on my > system. I edit the passwd file and changed the path for my shell to > reflect the same path to bash that is reflected on the /etc/shells > directory > Don't edit the passwd file directly if that's what you're doing. Either run vipw and change it through there, or run chfn and change the shell there. Either one of those two ways should work, as long as it's in /etc/shells like you say. Hope this helps, -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | The FreeBSD' zine : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsdzine.org/ : : FreeBSD: The Power To Serve | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message