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List:       freebsd-stable
Subject:    Re: Getting a new shell to work for the 'toor' user
From:       Don Wilde <dwilde1 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-07-06 19:48:57
Message-ID: c65e0c10-bc23-0653-c5a1-3f79297b75e7 () gmail ! com
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On 7/6/20 12:13 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 07:10, Don Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I finally got around to -- I thought :) -- completing my inclusion of
>> bash-static as a usable shell.
>>
>> It works as an available shell in 'adduser', but when I tried to use it
>> as a recovery shell (see attached .odt), I ran into a problem. My fist
>> pass was to add /bin/stbash to the end of the toor line in
>> master.passwd, but that didn't change it even after a reboot.
> You have to use vipw(8).
That worked, thanks! I'd forgotten about vipw, though I'd used it 
before. Doug's answer would have worked too, but since vipw calls 
pwd_mkdb, I didn't have to figure that one out. :)

I'll polish the doc and ship it to freebsd-doc@ for comments. Appreciate 
the help!

--

Don Wilde

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