Or you could try this: export EDITOR=/usr/bin/gedit vipw
Also, vipw doesn't seem to be installed by default on OpenSolaris, although strangely the man page *is*. ;-) Andrew. On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Nicholas Senedzuk < nicholas.senedzuk at gmail.com> wrote: > If you edit the the password file while someone is logged in it is not > going to cause any problems. The next time the person opens a shell then > they will receive the new shell. > > > Yes you can use gedit or something like that but you should really use > vipw. The one thing with this is that it does require you to know VI to edit > the file. > > > > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:36 PM, andrew <andrum04 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> The default shell for each user is stored in the /etc/passwd file on the >> end of each line. Change into single user mode (init S) then edit the passwd >> file using vi (vi /etc/passwd and change it. >> >> That's the safe, recommended way to do it. If you like to live >> dangerously, you can simply make sure you're the only person logged in and >> do this in a terminal window: >> >> su >> (enter root password) >> gedit /etc/passwd & >> >> Then edit the passwd file in the Gnome text editor (gedit). >> >> Cheers >> >> Andrew. >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-help mailing list >> opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org >> > > -- Andrew Pattison andrum04 at gmail dot com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20080802/372959f5/attachment.html>
