From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 23 08:57:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22799 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:57:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marlin.corp.gulf.net (calvin@marlin.corp.gulf.net [198.69.72.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22785 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from calvin@marlin.corp.gulf.net) Received: from localhost (calvin@localhost) by marlin.corp.gulf.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA00788; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:51:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:51:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Calvin Meloon To: Brendan Kosowski - System Administrator cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 1. If I change the root login shell in /etc/passwd to /bin/sh instead of > /bin/csh , it still comes up as "csh" when I login as root. As root, try chfn. Make sure you have the right path set up for 'sh'. > > 2. The /etc/passwd file has * for all passwords. This is confusing because > older unix systems used * to DISABLE a user login. If * is NOT disable, > then how do I disable a user login ? This should be normal for the /etc/passwd file. Check your /etc/master.passwd file, and you should see the encrypted passwords. _____ __ _ / ___/__ _/ / __(_)__ Gulf Coast Internet Calvin M. Meloon / /__/ _ `/ / |/ / / _ \ Pensacola, FL Unix Administrator \___/\_,_/_/|___/_/_//_/ (850)438-5700 writer of code ~~~~ calvin@gulf.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Proponent of FreeBSD and the right of everyone to use a real OS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message