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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Delete or modify user, how? Date: 20 Jul 1996 16:12:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4sr0he$4ae@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31ED60CE.4F28@best.com> <4sl92a$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4spr81$me6@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jlfox+@pitt.edu (James L Fox) wrote: > 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" ! Are you trying to use the non-interactive options? They were broken in 2.1 (the effect of the option was effectively undone by the YP initialization a dozen of lines later). This has been fixed since. (If you've got sources, simply move the YP initialization block before the option evaluation.) The interactive case always worked for me. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)