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Pieter Donche writes:
>  How can one change the PATH for the user www ?
>  to include e.g. /usr/local/bin
>  
>  In /etc/passwd the entry now is:
>  www:*:80:80:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin

	Start by reading the section 5 man page for "passwd".
	Could you provide a little more detail about what's breaking
and why you think this user's path is involved?


				Robert Huff