Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:56:47 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: wweng@stevens-tech.edu (Wei Weng) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: change default shell for root Message-ID: <199710062056.PAA28503@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.971006155959.12335A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> from Wei Weng at "Oct 6, 97 04:04:15 pm"
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In a previous message, Wei Weng said:
> Hi.
> I tried to change the default shell for root in passwd file and
> master.passed file to /usr/local/bin/bash. But when I exited even
> restarted , nothing has been changed. Could anyone tell me why this
> happened and how to solve it?
>
> ja ne
Don't hand edit /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd. Use vipw. The real
stuff is in /etc/pwd.db, which pwd_mkdb generates.
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