Change /bin/bash to /bin/zsh
 

Hi, I tried to do this command but it doesnt change it to zsh

BTW, I use xterm right now, is there a way to make it transparent? Do I have to use something else like rxvt? Thank you for any help. :study:

transparency=eterm,aterm... not xterm

i think you can try to edit /etc/passwd and change your shell from there.

Re: Change /bin/bash to /bin/zsh
 

What does it do when you run that? Does it give an error or what? That only changes the login shell, so you are logging out and back in after running that right? To change the *current* shell, all you have to do is run /bin/zsh

Also, for chsh to work, the shell must be listed in /etc/shells but that shouldn't be a problem, because /bin/zsh was in mine by default.

The shell is in /etc/passwd not /etc/shadow but yes that is an option also, assuming they have root access (which they don't need for chsh)

thanks, passwd was what i meant.

Re: Re: Change /bin/bash to /bin/zsh
 

Yeah, but everytime I open my shell, it has /bin/bash, I want to change it to /bin/zsh for my "normal" user account, root account was changed though thank you. :study:

did you change the entry for the user account you're using? the line you should change is the line that begins with your username. it might look like this: Smokey:x:1001:1001::/home/Smokey:/bin/bash.

Re: Re: Re: Change /bin/bash to /bin/zsh
 

Are you running chsh from your user account or from root? If you are running it from root, you would type:

yeah I did that but it doesnt go into effect, do I need to reboot? :scratch:

no, you don't need to reboot. you only need to log out and log back in.

thank you, that worked perfectly.

you're welcome. anyway, if you want a less intrusive (and perhaps harder-to-mess-up) way to achieve the same thing, and if you're using kde, then you can use the KUser program to change the login shell of users. good luck.