From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 21: 9:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61CE937B82B for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:09:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA22241; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:09:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:09:48 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: outlawtx@bga.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making bash the default shell in 3.4 Message-ID: <20000331000948.D21512@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <3.0.6.32.20000330221736.019ad100@bga.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000330221736.019ad100@bga.com>; from outlawtx@bga.com on Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:17:36PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:17:36PM -0600, outlawtx@bga.com wrote: > Hello, > > How the heck do I make "bash" the default shell? Well, first, installing bash or bash2 would probably be a good idea since it is not part of the base FreeBSD distribution. There are bash ports, /usr/ports/shells/bash and /usr/ports/shells/bash2, as well as precompiled packages. Once you install bash, % man chsh Will allow a mortal user to change his shell. The root user can change anyone and everyone's shell with a quick, % man vipw And finally, if you want to make /usr/local/bin/bash the default for users added with the adduser(8) simply follow the prompts within adduser to put it in as teh default. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message