From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 19:09:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA00503 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 19:09:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from bambi.pomona.edu (bambi.pomona.edu [134.173.64.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA00498 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 19:09:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from POMONA.EDU by POMONA.EDU (PMDF V5.0-4 #12356) id <01HZJNGCRC4G8WWO1J@POMONA.EDU> for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Jan 1996 19:09:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 19:09:07 -0800 (PST) From: JOHN Subject: How to change default shell? To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01HZJNGCT0EA8WWO1J@POMONA.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"questions@freebsd.org" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I can't find a usermod command, so first I tried directly editing the /etc/passwd file. But that did not work, so I then tried editing the /etc/master.passwd file as well (should this be done?) I just want to have bash as the default shell rather than csh, but even with these fields changed, csh remains the default. Also, what is the purpose of the master.passwd file? Is it just to implement password shadowing? Thanks John