On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Marechal, Laurent wrote:

> 2- I try to change the shell for the root user to get sh, I changed the
> etc/passwd and also using chsh, but it keep using csh..

Editing /etc/passwd doesn't help much, because the real file is
/etc/pwd.db. (They are generated using pwd_mkdb command.)

Anyways, chsh should work fine. How did you use it?

And usermod can do it.

And also try vipw.

   Jeremy C. Reed
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