Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:12:35 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Tiberiu Stef (Cracu)" <cracu@elle.c5.utcluj.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing shell Message-ID: <199902250112.TAA47789@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Tiberiu Stef (Cracu)" <cracu@elle.c5.utcluj.ro> of "Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:57:04 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.4.04.9902242054210.16921-100000@elle.c5.utcluj.ro>
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"Tiberiu Stef (Cracu)" writes: > how do i change the default shell (from csh to bash and viceversa) > assignet at login? > i know it's somewhere in the $SHELL but in which file? Nope, not in $SHELL. Its the last field in /etc/master.passwd. SysAdmin can use vipw(1) to edit. Users can select their own shell without SysAdmin attention by using the chsh(1) utility: % chsh -s tcsh dkelly chsh: updating the database... chsh: done % grep dkelly /etc/passwd dkelly:*:928:928:David Kelly:/home/dkelly:/usr/local/bin/tcsh % -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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