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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:29:38 -0600
From:      nathan <beemern@ksu.edu>
To:        Sam Hays <sam@ecofl.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: more specifics on my shell issues
Message-ID:  <388F12E2.E8BE86B0@ksu.edu>
References:  <003f01bf6810$c8bf2a00$297631cc@ecofl.com>

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Sam Hays wrote:

> I'm defaulting as csh,
> I'm (for right now) wanting to go to /bin/sh, rather than /bin/csh,
> my understanding was that you can edit your ~/.profile (or something
> similar) to change your
> default shell? or am I going to have to pull a passwd -s /bin/sh or
> something?

hmm... maybe you're thinking of the command   vipw

that allows to you manually edit the passwd file and you can change the
/bin/csh to whatever you'd like

just make sure its a VALID SHELL... or you could be in for some
surprises :)

hope it helps!!




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