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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:15:35 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to modify an existing user's setting?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904222214110.23874-100000@jane.cgu.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990421145425.828A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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1. 'man chpass'
2. 'man vipw'

you can also delete 'root' user, login as 'toor' user and add 'root' user 
again :-)

 Ilia Chipitsine

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> 
> It seems to me that we only have adduser and rmuser facility.  What if I
> want to modify the setting of an existing user?  I know it is not
> recommended. But now I want to change the default shell of root from csh
> to tcsh.  I certainly do not want to delete the root user first and add
> root again (or can I do so?). 
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> -Zhihui
> 
> 
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