From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 18:16:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D29159EF for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:16:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heiphetz@cvzoom.net) Received: from night_flight (lcl30.cvzoom.net [208.226.155.30]) by ns.cvzoom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA23036 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:59:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990422211333.0091ae00@cvzoom.net> X-Sender: heiphetz@cvzoom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:13:33 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Alex Heiphetz Subject: Re: How to modify an existing user's setting? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>> Zhihui Zhang 04/21/99 01:59PM >>> > >It seems to me that we only have adduser and rmuser facility. What if I >want to modify the setting of an existing user? I know it is not >recommended. But now I want to change the default shell of root from csh >to tcsh. I certainly do not want to delete the root user first and add >root again (or can I do so?). prompt> su #become root #vipw #run vipw Reagrds, A.Heiphetz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message