Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 23:09:36 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to modify an existing user's setting? Message-ID: <19990421230936.D266@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990421145425.828A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>; from Zhihui Zhang on Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 02:59:44PM -0400 References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990421145425.828A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 02:59:44PM -0400, 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?).
>
man chsh
man passwd
man vipw
man group
HTH
> Thanks for any help.
>
> -Zhihui
>
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