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From: "Steven R Howe" <stevenrhowe@comcast.net>
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or
just to be a know-it-all with anither answer....

pw usermod <username> -s </path/to/shell>

I personally use vipw to mod user account info, but use this to add
users.


Good Luck
-steven





-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of mojo fms
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 1:28 PM
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Subject: changing users default shell


i know you use to be able to change it in /etc/passwd but im kind of out
of date on how it is done on newer versions of fbsd.. i cant find any
real info execpt for adduser in the handbook..

I want to change a users shell from sh to bash..

thanks
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