Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:13:06 +0000 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de> To: Tim Dixon <tdixon@fwi.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change default shell Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-1223111306-b49Zsav@duffner.surf24.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912221154350.1696-100000@tdixon.fwi.com>
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On Wed 22 Dec, Tim Dixon wrote: > Hi! > > I've just gotten my FreeBSD 3.3 system running; I created a user account > for myself a while back, but have decided I like bash better than sh and > now I want to change my default shell to bash. That's OK. > I edited /etc/passwd so that the shell path at the end of my user's line > reads /usr/share/bin/bash which is where bash is installed (I installed > the package vi sysinstall), but it doesn't seem to be working. That's correct. Use chsh for that - and put bash into /etc/shells (I think), so that the system can recognize it as a "legal" shell. > I still > get sh when I log in. And be carefull when changing root's shell ! > Anybody know what I've done wrong? Just a newbie-mistake ;-) I happened to read about the chsh-command before I felt the urge to change the shell ;-) cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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