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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:03:21 +0200
From: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
To: John Starkey <jstarkey@polaris.umuc.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Changing shells.
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Hey there,

vipw rehashes the database when it's finished, which is what really
makes the change 'official'.  Excuse the terrible terminology this
morning, as it's still way to early here.

Take a look at pwd_mkdb(8) for more info.

Cheers,
Marc

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:52:02AM -0700, John Starkey wrote:
>     Thanks everyone for the help. I didn't know about vipw. Still don't
> understand why it worked??? Anyone???
> 
> I used vi /etc/passwd and it looked like the same file and vipw looks like a
> offshoot of vi.
> 
> Oh well.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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