From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 15:14: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651A914F0E for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA09052; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:14:49 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey To: Reinoud Koornstra Cc: BSD Journal - general , "Sloan, Kyle" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standard shell. Message-ID: <19990707151449.L2152@cpl.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Reinoud Koornstra on Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:04:31AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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