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From: jlfox+@pitt.edu (James L Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Delete or modify user, how?
Date: 20 Jul 1996 05:36:01 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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Message-ID: <4spr81$me6@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
References: <31ED60CE.4F28@best.com> <4sl92a$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In article <4sl92a$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
<Chris Millikin <chrism@best.com> wrote:
<
<
<Modifying is easy.  Use vipw(8) to modify more than a single user, or
<chsh(1) to modify the account data for a single user.  Any ordinary
<user may edit a limited subset of his own data with chsh, while the
<admin may modify everything.
<
I'm running 2.1.0 but have no luck changing my shell from csh to sh
using chsh. I get the "..database being updated.." message but it
never happens. /etc/passwd still says "csh" !