Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:14:49 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net> To: Reinoud Koornstra <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl> Cc: BSD Journal - general <general@shell.bsdjournal.com>, "Sloan, Kyle" <ksloan@datatimes.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standard shell. Message-ID: <19990707151449.L2152@cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990708000109.23694A-100000@ux1.ibb.net>; from Reinoud Koornstra on Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:04:31AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990707165311.18036A-100000@shell.bsdjournal.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.990708000109.23694A-100000@ux1.ibb.net>
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> Well, okay, but why wont i change the /etc/password manually? > Secondly, why should i use vipw, what has it got that other dont? > Last of all, then how should i change the login shell as root? Use vipw, and change the shell line. If you don't like vi, if your using csh/tcsh as your shell, just set your EDITOR variable, such as 'setenv EDITOR joe/pico/ee/whatever' > And yes i do everything as root, why not? I setup my system, i installed > bsd on it and now everything works, even the soundcard, thanks to you all. > So why not beging root? last of all, when i add a user, (i did it lately) > that user has acces to all dirs and so on, how to change that? i dont want > him/her to look in /boot, /etc, /usr the users must ONLY have acces to > home/[username]..... how to do that? That is a good question. I know this can be done with FTP, but can this be done with telnet? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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