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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:20:49 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Dale Anderson <danderso@crystalsugar.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to modify an existing user's setting?
Message-ID:  <371E5D51.A5215E9B@3-cities.com>
References:  <s71df01b.048@mail> <19990421225206.A17017@rucus.ru.ac.za>

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Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> 
> On Wed 1999-04-21 (15:34), Dale Anderson wrote:
> >    Try the Change Finger utility,  chfn()
> 
> Better yet, pw.
> 

It doesn't matter. Do a man. They are all linked to chpass.

Kent

> > >>> Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> 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
> >
> >
> >
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