Is there a way to edit a .profile file that would let a user have bash as their login shell?

We tried adding:
exec /bin/bash --login

to the .profile, but this produced an endless loop and we could not login using that account.

Thanks!
Aaron

use the usermod command to modify the user login shell like this

# usermod -s /bin/bash

which usually changes the usr's login shell and set-up the new .bashrc profile for the new login shell

Thanks! So put that in the .profile statement, without the "#" sign in front? Or is that needed?

Don't put that in the .profile file. Just run that command once as the user. The '#' character is just the command prompt, you don't actually type that character in.

Oh, ok, I was hoping to have something to put in the profile so we could avoid running that command everytime.

I'm not sure I understand you. You only have to run it once.

And then it remembers to use bash as the shell everytime you login? I guess maybe I'm confused, too. Looking for something this user can put in their .profile statement so they will have bash as their shell everytime they login.