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From: tgr@picuxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: login shell == ../vi
Message-ID: <196@picuxa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 10:15:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: picuxa.196
Posted: Mon Jun 22 10:15:03 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jun-87 01:33:14 EDT
References: <10249@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Parsippany NJ
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Summary: changing login shell

In article <10249@cgl.ucsf.EDU>, han@cgl.ucsf.edu (Charles S. Han%Langridge) writes:
> 	is there any (non-super user) way to change your login shell back to
> 	anything functional?

Not really; you must have root/su/sysadmin privileges to write to the
password file.

Under AT&T UNIX (tm) SVR3 (for 3B2), their is a menu-driven system
administration tool which will allow you to change a user's login shell
(sysadm chgshell under usermgmt.moduser).


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