Hi

I logon to sunos boxes at work that starts in a ksh shell. I would like to login to a bash shell whenever I logon to the sunos boxes instead of having to login and type bash .

I tried editing the .profile and added SHELL= usr/bin/bash however when I login I am still in the ksh shell. I checked passwd/etc and can see that it is listed as usr/bin/ksh for my user id. I cannot change this as I do not have the rights. Is it possible to just create one s

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ES

Add an "exec bash" to the end of your .profile.

You can change your shell in the /etc/passwd file (ask your administrator to change for you)

If your account is handled globally (i.e. LDAP, NIS or NIS+), you can change the shell yourself with the command:

passwd -e /bin/bash

thx guys I will try to see if I can change the etc/passwd using passwd -e when I'm back at work if not I will try adding exec bash to .profile