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From: "Jon E. Kump" <jkump@cyberusa.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Changing User's shell in FreebSD
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:00:46 -0500
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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.

Thanks in advance
Jon E. Kump
jkump@cyberusa.com