From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 19 13:57:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.intercom.es (relay1.intercom.es [212.66.160.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5002537B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:57:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from lix.intercom.es (root@lix.intercom.es [212.66.160.2]) by relay1.intercom.es (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAJKhvC15767; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:43:57 +0100 Received: from intercom.es (iv2-130.intercom.es [212.66.169.130]) by lix.intercom.es (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA10623; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 22:55:39 +0100 Received: (from megarcia@localhost) by intercom.es (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAJLxKI01636; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 22:59:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from megarcia) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 22:59:20 +0100 From: Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta To: Sam Carleton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: manually changing users shell Message-ID: <20001119225920.C584@ilex.kicelo.org> References: <3A184B47.7CB5F3C7@bigfoot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3A184B47.7CB5F3C7@bigfoot.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sam, === Sam Carleton escribia (Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:51:03PM -0500): > Ok, I give. I modified both the /etc/passwd and the /etc/master.passwd > files, but the shell still does not change. I am trying to change the > shell from /bin/sh to /bin/tcsh. Both shells are in the /etc/shells > file. How do I go about manually changing a users shell? The canonical procedure is, as root: vipw and edit the shell field there. > > Sam HTH Manuel Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message