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- From: martins@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Martin Sandman 3562)
- Subject: usermod root: a Catch 22?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.194833.18683@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 19:48:33 GMT
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- On an SVR4 system you have to be root to execute usermod.
- I tried to use usermod to set root's default shell to
- /bin/ksh but it tells me that "root is in use. Cannot change it."
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- # usermod -s /bin/ksh root
- UX: usermod: ERROR: root is in use. Cannot change it.
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- Any suggestions? Thanks.
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