From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 9:56:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C262514ECC for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 09:56:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id WAA19172; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:51:15 +0600 (UDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mobil.surnet.ru: uucgilh set sender to ilia@cgilh.chel.su using -f Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id WAA00413; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:36:39 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by jane.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA24524; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:15:35 GMT (envelope-from ilia@jane.cgu.chel.su) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:15:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Ilia Chipitsine To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to modify an existing user's setting? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 1. 'man chpass' 2. 'man vipw' you can also delete 'root' user, login as 'toor' user and add 'root' user again :-) Ilia Chipitsine On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, 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?). > > 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