Re: Just a little newbie question

From: Vesa-Pekka Palmu (vessu@dlc.fi)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 19:56:43 CEST


> If you only want to change root shell (or another user's shell), you should
> change it in /etc/passwd, the shell used is the last field.

Well that did it, now I can use bash for my shell, thanks for this
advise.

BTW what are the other fields in passwd file? the first is login
name, second is crypted password (?), the t3nd is?, 4th is?, 5th is
users name, 6th is hom directory and the last is shell?

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