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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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