From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 11:22:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw2.roguewave.com (fw2.roguewave.com [208.151.233.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6C4152CE for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 11:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carey@roguewave.com) Received: by fw2.roguewave.com; id LAA04520; Wed, 5 May 1999 11:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com(10.68.4.36) via SMTP by hub.FreeBSD.ORG, id smtpd004495; Wed May 5 11:15:40 1999 Received: by cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Wed, 5 May 1999 11:22:41 -0700 Message-ID: From: Woody Carey To: "'Peter Brezny'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: /etc/passwd Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 11:22:40 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message