Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 08:31:23 -0500 From: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> To: William Scully <bill@scully.biz> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing the default log in shell Message-ID: <20030523083123.6d46ae19.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <20030523120433.GA2281@scully.biz> References: <20030523120433.GA2281@scully.biz>
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On Fri, 23 May 2003 21:04:33 +0900 William Scully <bill@scully.biz> wrote: > When I installed 4.7, I chose bash as the default log in shell. I have come > to prefer tcsh and would like to make that the default. What is the best > way to go about that? Of course, I can switch shells on the fly, but I > want to avoid that extra step of cahnging from bash to tcsh, and instead > log straight into tcsh from the log- in prompt. Bill, You can use 'vipw' to edit the users account and change the reference to the users shell at the end of the users entry. Example: Change from myuser:xXxXxXxX:1002:1002::0:0:My User:/home/myuser:/bin/sh To myuser:xXxXxXxX:1002:1002::0:0:My User:/home/myuser:/bin/tcsh After this change the next time you log in as "myuser" you will have the shell "tcsh". Regards, Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com
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