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Date:      Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:34:49 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc:        Phil Homewood <philh@mincom.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: root shell/toor shell
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912022132560.95222-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912021311260.12785-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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Well, using chsh from toor tells me i am actually editing the root
password entry.  The /etc/shells has 4 shells listed, all in their proper
places.  But i still cannot seem to edit toor's entry.  In /etc/passwd,
the entry and password for toor is different.  But for the login shell,
the entry is blank.  I assum it uses the one for root here, and that may
be the problem.  Isn't there command i have to run if i decide to edit
/etc/passwd directly?


On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Annelise Anderson wrote:

>You have two choices.
>
>	1) Investigate your files to find out what's going on.
>Look at your password file, /etc/shells, all your dot files, and
>all the shells themselves, and your environmental variables.
>Somewhere something's set up or aliased or linked or something.
>Figure it out.
>
>	2) Reinstall.
>
>Annelise
>
>On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
>
>> This is really irritating.  I am logging in from a clear terminal screen
>> (not using su) and i changed the shell for toor.  When i logged in as
>> root, that shell was also changed.
>> 
>> 
>> -jm
>> 
>> ------------------
>> Bayliss: "And that's another thing... 
>> you never say 'please' and 'thank you.'"
>> 
>> Pendleton: "Please stop being an idiot.  Thank you."
>> 
>
>


-jm

------------------
Bayliss: "And that's another thing... 
you never say 'please' and 'thank you.'"

Pendleton: "Please stop being an idiot.  Thank you."



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