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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is /bin/sh OK? Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:08:20 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 55 Message-ID: <32669234.6C1@www.play-hookey.com> References: <JOHN.96Oct10165658@burdell.ece.arizona.edu> <325E882E.95F@www.play-hookey.com> <5438sl$pi@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) James L Fox wrote: > > In article <325E882E.95F@www.play-hookey.com>, > Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: > >John Galbraith wrote: > >> > >> I recently installed the 2.1.5-RELEASE. ( It went totally smoothly > >> ...... > > > >man chpass. You can do 'chpass -s bash' to change your own shell. > >-- > >Ken > > > > This thread makes me suspect I'm missing something important about > root, toor, /bin/csh, /bin/sh,,,,,, > > MUST root run with /bin/csh? Not at all. I'm running bash on all of mine. > > How can I get chpass (chsh, etc) to really update the database > and change an account's shell from /bin/csh to /bin/sh? > > 1. /etc/shells contains both entries. > 2. Either as su or user, the command > chpass -s /bin/sh [user] // user included when su > > results in the following: > chpass: rebuilding the database... > chpass: done > > However, /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd get a fresh date/time > entry (I heard the disk) but they are unchanged. OK, try this: chfn (for CHange Full Name) these will get you an edit session with your selected editor, on a file which contains whatever information you are allowed to change. This includes your password, in encrypted form, so be careful! One of the things you can change is your shell. When you exit the edit session, the password files will be updated with whatever changes you made, including the shell you want. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |