From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 7:10:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB30E37BA42 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 07:10:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA52418; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:09:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:09:46 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: John Starkey Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Changing shells. In-Reply-To: <38CF411E.191A5A0C@polaris.umuc.edu> 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 Hi, On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, 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. Vipw is (unless you have EDITOR set to something else) vi - however vipw automatically rebuilds the password database after you exit. If you just use vi, you have to do so manually. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message