From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Dec 23 2:44:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf24.de (mail.surf24.de [212.62.192.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B8914ECE for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:44:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de) Received: from duffner.surf24.de (surf224.surf24.de [212.62.193.224]) by mail.surf24.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA18969; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:45:38 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:13:06 +0000 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: Change default shell To: Tim Dixon Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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