From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 7 14:02:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA08086 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 14:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iconz.co.nz (iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA08064 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 14:02:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by iconz.co.nz (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA29364; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:02:28 +1200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA14861; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:02:27 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA13213; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 08:56:51 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA13826; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 08:56:50 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 08:56:50 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Mail Lists cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, 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 Use `vipw' instead of `favourite-editor /etc/passwd'. It's a BSD-anachronism. -- Jonathan Chen e-mail : jonc@pinnacle.co.nz Pinnacle Software Ltd Voice : +64.9.415.4460 Auckland, New Zealand Fax : +64.9.415.4250