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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!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!newsfeed2!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: tedm@portsoft.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Changing User's shell in FreebSD Date: 17 Apr 1997 06:28:08 GMT Organization: Easystreet Online Services Lines: 11 Message-ID: <5j4fto$sjc$11@easystreet03> References: <3352E14E.41C67EA6@cyberusa.com> Reply-To: tedm@portsoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39196 In <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. You are using vipw to modify the password file, NOT editing it directly with vi, right?