From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 15:14:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E17915931 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA12958; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:07:13 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:07:13 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to modify an existing user's setting? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > 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?). Check out: vipw(1) chsh(1) Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message