Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:11:59 +0300 From: "Vasilkov Vasily" <chand0s@list.ru> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Changing shells (was: pkg_add not installing lsof (and other programs)?) Message-ID: <op.s1uil9ejfi920b@lazy.lazy.org> In-Reply-To: <6e4453640512151258q7167d253t82f50f423002822b@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e4453640512151258q7167d253t82f50f423002822b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:58:44 +0300, TuxGirl <tuxgirl@gmail.com> wrote: >> If you install bash, be aware that you have that you have to add it >> (with it's full path, /usr/local/bin/bash) to /etc/shells befor trying >> to change your shell (with 'pw usermod yourname -s bash'). > > amon-re# pw usermod erins -s zsh > pw: no default shell available or defined > > I've added it to /etc/shells: > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/shells,v 1.5 2000/04/27 21:58:46 ache Exp $ > # > # List of acceptable shells for chpass(1). > # Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using > # one of these shells. > > /bin/sh > /bin/csh > /bin/tcsh > /usr/local/bin/zsh > /usr/local/bin/rzsh > /usr/local/bin/bash > > When I log in as my user (erins), if I run ps, it shows sh as the > shell running. Am I missing an important step someplace here? If you wanna change default shell, edit /etc/master.passwd and run pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
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