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Date:      Wed, 5 May 1999 11:22:40 -0700 
From:      Woody Carey <carey@roguewave.com>
To:        "'Peter Brezny'" <peter@shorthair.purplecat.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: /etc/passwd
Message-ID:  <EB55BCC162CAD111BD0A00A0C9979E3201944BFD@cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com>

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No.  Use vipw.  Use vipw. Use vipw, or if you just want to change the
shell, I believe there exists a chsh command to do this.  

> 
> why when i make changes to /etc/passwd using pico, things 
> visibly change,
> but changing someone's shell from nologin to bash seems to make no
> functional changes.
> 
> i've been clued into using vipw, however, isn't there a way 
> to edit this
> file functionally using any old text editor?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> Peter Brezny
> purplecat.net


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