From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 13:56:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D20A515911 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 17055 invoked by uid 1003); 21 Apr 1999 22:52:06 -0000 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:52:06 +0000 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Dale Anderson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to modify an existing user's setting? Message-ID: <19990421225206.A17017@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Dale Anderson on Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 03:34:36PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 1999-04-21 (15:34), Dale Anderson wrote: > Try the Change Finger utility, chfn() Better yet, pw. > >>> Zhihui Zhang 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message