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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:52:06 +0000
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Dale Anderson <danderso@crystalsugar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to modify an existing user's setting?
Message-ID:  <19990421225206.A17017@rucus.ru.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <s71df01b.048@mail>; from Dale Anderson on Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 03:34:36PM -0500
References:  <s71df01b.048@mail>

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On Wed 1999-04-21 (15:34), Dale Anderson wrote:
>    Try the Change Finger utility,  chfn()

Better yet, pw.

> >>> Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> 04/21/99 01:59PM >>>
> 
> It seems to me that we only have adduser and rmuser facility.  What if I
> want to modify the setting of an existing user?  I know it is not
> recommended. But now I want to change the default shell of root from csh
> to tcsh.  I certainly do not want to delete the root user first and add
> root again (or can I do so?). 
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> -Zhihui
> 
> 
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