From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 7 13:27:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA06060 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.i-connect.net (qmailr@thor.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA06055 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:27:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11882 invoked by uid 4028); 7 Jul 1997 20:27:48 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 13:25:57 -0700 (PDT) From: ron@cts.com To: Mail Lists Subject: RE: Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Make sure to use the vipw(8) program to alter password files (as root, of course ) On 08-Jul-97 Mail Lists wrote: >> > Hi....whenever I update the password file my changes don't seem to take >effect even after a reboot...I've tried changing shells and comments and >they look right in the file, but don't work when logging in or using >finger...is there something else I need to do to update the system? >thanks...Adam ---------------------------------- E-Mail: ron@cts.com Date: 07/07/97 Time: 13:25:57 This message was sent by XF-Mail ----------------------------------