From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 16:25:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE04915942 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:23:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2251.bossig.com [208.26.242.251]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA11191; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <371E5D51.A5215E9B@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:20:49 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Dale Anderson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to modify an existing user's setting? References: <19990421225206.A17017@rucus.ru.ac.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message