From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 26 8:29:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.matrikon.com (www.matrikon.com [24.108.22.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEDFB152BE for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 08:29:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg.campbell@matrikon.com) Received: from greg-campbell [192.168.8.147] by mail.matrikon.com (SMTPD32-4.06) id A64C40EC031A; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:29:16 MDT From: "Greg Campbell" To: "Paul T. Root" Cc: Subject: RE: Korn shell issues Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:29:14 -0600 Message-ID: <001f01be8ff9$8a8c9410$9308a8c0@greg-campbell.matrikon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <199904261517.KAA20811@iaces.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks Paul - I'll give that a shot! I am use to other flavors of UN*X that don't require the "translation"... Again - thanks for the help! Greg > Just editting /etc/passwd does nothing. Data is looked > up in /etc/pwd.db, passwords are found in /etc/spwd.db. > > You make changes in those by editting /etc/master.passwd > and running pwd_mkdb. > > The easiest way to do that is to use vipw or chsh. It > opens your default editor to change the file and then > runs the pwd_mkdb, which populates passwd pwd.db and > spwd.db. > > > In a previous message, Greg Campbell said: > > Hi, > > > > I have installed the Korn shell (/bin/ksh) in > > my installation of FreeBSD 2.2.7. > > > > When I execute it from the command line, it > > works perfectly - no troubles. > > > > When I put it into the /etc/passwd file for one > > of the users (in place of csh - for example), the > > user still logs in as csh... Even though the > > directory and the file (/bin/ksh) are correct... > > > > Any ideas what is going on here? > > > > Thanks, > > Greg > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message