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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: Problems
Message-ID: <1992Jul19.225145.21185@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 22:51:45 GMT
References: <MeO7AOq00WB413Q29e@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <MeO7AOq00WB413Q29e@andrew.cmu.edu> tj2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tao Jiang) writes:
>1; I tried to use chsh and edit the passwd and master.passwd tp change
>the login shell, but they did not work. How can I chnage the login
>shell?
>2: Probably, the same problem as above, I could not add a new user
>by editing the passwd and master.passwd files.  What's the way to
>do it?

	vipw.

	Does the magic stuff great.

	(Real funky .db goings on)

-- 
	I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds!
	Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
	That's the biz, sweetheart.
Randy Suess					 randy@chinet.chi.il.us