From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 15:18: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591C615364 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10a5G9-0005aN-0C; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:14:21 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id XAA04772; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 23:13:36 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id XAA00736; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 23:09:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 23:09:36 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to modify an existing user's setting? Message-ID: <19990421230936.D266@marder-1> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Zhihui Zhang on Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 02:59:44PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message