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From: shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Question about /etc/passwd and vadmin
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.164722.2266@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 90 16:47:22 GMT
Sender: shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
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After loading tcsh version 5.20 from Cornell (thanks, Christos!) and playing
with it a bit, I decided to make it my default shell.  I had put it in
/usr/local/bin, and it worked fine from a remote ascii terminal, after 
changing the default shell entry for me in /etc/passwd to /usr/local/bin/tcsh.
However, from the console, a wsh would die before returning a prompt.  Once I 
moved tcsh to /bin, and changed /etc/passwd accordingly, everything worked.
So my question is, "How come?".

Second, I've been going through the vadmin man page, and have figured out
that by changing /usr/lib/vadmin/pwd.defaults, I can make tcsh the default
shell for new users added through use of the System Manager tool.  When
I say I've figured it out, that doesn't mean I've tried it  :-) !  So
this is a request to document vadmin subcommands to a lower level than
is now the case, and also, incidentally, to expand the Backup&Restore submenu 
to subsume more of bru's options -- perhaps in a configurable manner, through
the use of one of these .defaults files.

	-P.
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Peter S. Shenkin, Department of Chemistry, Barnard College, New York, NY  10027
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