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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Changing User's shell in FreebSD
Date: 15 Apr 1997 09:34:50 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <3352E14E.41C67EA6@cyberusa.com>,
"Jon E. Kump" <jkump@cyberusa.com> writes:
> I need help changing my user's shells on my FreeBSD 2.2 machine. When I
> edit the passwd file with the new shell and logoff and back on I'm still
> using the old shell. The new one does not take effect. But if I delete
> the user and the readd the user with the new shell everything is just
> fine. Every other version of U*IX that I have used all I had to do was
> change the passwd file.
man vipw
man chsh
> Thanks in advance
> Jon E. Kump
> jkump@cyberusa.com
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !