Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 07:00:03 -0800 (PST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: misc/933: "chpass -s" to change shell does not work Message-ID: <199601061500.HAA27841@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/933; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: taob@io.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/933: "chpass -s" to change shell does not work Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 15:54:34 +0100 (MET) As taob@io.org wrote: > > Using "chpass -s <shell>" or "chsh -s <shell>" to change a user's > login shell causes a rebuild of the passwd databases, but no changes > are visible in /etc/passwd or /etc/master.passwd. Neither did -p or -a work. The YP initialization happened after the option-specific settings have already been performed, and hence the new entries were clobbered. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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