Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:21:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Wei Weng <wweng@stevens-tech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: change default shell for root Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.971007081807.22712C-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.971006155959.12335A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu>
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On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Wei Weng wrote: > 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 DO NOT edit master.passwd unless you really, really need to. Use vipw instead. vipw will rebuild the user database automagically for you as well as check for accidental corruption of the passwd file. The lack of the DB rebuild is your problem. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/
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