easy question

5amYan · 04-25-2002, 03:37 AM

OK I am not a fan of sh or csh.
So I installed bash and zsh.
Now I am tired of typing bash or zsh every time I login or su.
i don't see anywhere to change the default shell in .profile
at a loss
plz help

TIA

Blackknight · 04-25-2002, 03:54 AM

Many solutions

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1- as root, vipw offers you to change the entry in the password file where the last field is the shell the user will use.
2- logged as the user, chpass will help you (see man chpass study: )
3- If you want to change the shell for a group of user, you must take a look at login.conf (man login.conf study: ) where you can specify a shell for a whole class. You can change the class of a user with chpass as root.
Hope it helps you.

Fred:

5amYan · 04-25-2002, 04:07 AM

Thanks for the reply BK

I just found chsh....
changge shell...duh?
so easy

unSpawn · 04-25-2002, 04:08 AM

/bin/sh *is* a link to bash :-]
Default shell is defined in /etc/passwd, where shell should be one of those mentioned in /etc/shells.

Blackknight · 04-25-2002, 04:09 AM

Forgot it !!!!!

It certainly was to easy and I certainly wanted to provide much more than needed. As we say in France : "A very big hammer to kill a very little fly"