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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:35:12 -0800
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: brian william wolter <bwolter@thesadmachine.org>
Cc: Sam Carleton <scarleton@bigfoot.com>,
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Subject: Re: manually changing users shell
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> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Sam Carleton wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> >

* brian william wolter <bwolter@thesadmachine.org> [001119 20:33] wrote:
> use the command 'chsh'
>

Also, don't edit /etc/passwd manually, use vipw.


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