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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how do I modify passwd entries? Date: 18 Oct 1995 19:03:05 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 19 Message-ID: <463j19$q03@overload.lbl.gov> References: <4616mf$2ub@shellx.best.com> <SCOTTE.95Oct18073931@odie.center.uscs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov In article <SCOTTE.95Oct18073931@odie.center.uscs.com>, L. Scott Emmons <scotte@center.uscs.com> wrote: >In article <4616mf$2ub@shellx.best.com> paigen@shellx.best.com (David Paigen) writes: > >> But what do I do about old user accounts that need to >> be changed? I need to change the login directory of >> one user. Can I do this by hand? > >Yes. Use "vipw". chsh $USER may be easier for changing a single one. -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |