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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!syix.com!bad-news.harborcom.net!ns2.harborcom.net!mfisher 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 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5jagjt$c70$1@bad-news.harborcom.net> References: <3352E14E.41C67EA6@cyberusa.com> <5j4fto$sjc$11@easystreet03> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns2.harborcom.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39342 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] -- Mike