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From: mfisher@beavis.harborcom.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Changing User's shell in FreebSD
Date: 19 Apr 1997 13:16:45 GMT
Organization: Harbor Communications
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tedm@portsoft.com wrote:
:> "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?

Or, you could issue the command chpass [user]

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Mike