On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : > : > : You can edit the file /etc/passwd, the defauld shell for the user is the : > : last thing in the line. : > : I'm sure that there is a script that does it for you, but I like doing it : > : myself. : > : > Uh, what about the case where a non-trusted user wants to change her : > shell? If you're going to let anyone edit /etc/passwd that's your : > business, but I think it's insanity :) : > : > `chsh' was invented so that a user who does not have root access may : > change their shell. See also `chfn', etc. : : I didn't mean to let everybody the ability to edit passwd, but anybody : can email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "say he/she wants his/hers default shell : changed, and one of us will do it for him. (Of course we tell them that : they can change their shell by typing the name of the new shell, be we're : willing to change it for them. (It is not that hard, so why not offer this : service to our users?)
I've got a couple thousand users and a mid-sized network to maintain; I don't have time to edit /etc/passwd at the whim of a user, particularly when a command exists where they can achieve the result themselves. Your mileage may vary :) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
