Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:09:34 -0400 (EDT) From: zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu> To: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> Cc: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to modify an existing user's setting? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.L3.93.990422140636.28167C-100000@bingsun1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904222214110.23874-100000@jane.cgu.chel.su>
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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > 1. 'man chpass' > 2. 'man vipw' > > you can also delete 'root' user, login as 'toor' user and add 'root' user > again :-) > I can not delete the root user by rmuser. So I delete root by vipw. After that, I exit and try to login in as toor. But this time no matter whatever passwd I try, it won't log me in (I tries the old root password or simple press enter at the passwd prompt). The passwd field for toor is a * if you see it by vipw. Any idea? -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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