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07-13-2009

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Changing default login shell

Hi everybody,

The problem is quite simple, I want to change my default shell which is /bin/csh to /bin/bash. I have looked online for solutions to my problem, but to no avail.

I have tried chsh, but it tells me this:

chsh: can only change local entries; use ypchsh instead.

I use ypchsh, but I get:

ypchsh: can't get local yp domain: Local domain name not set

I looked at /etc/passwd, and I don't have an entry in this file.

However when I do, getent passwd d.tang

d.tang:x:10948:20004:Dave Tang:/home/d.tang:/bin/csh

I don't have root privileges, but even if I did I don't even know where this information is coming from.

Could someone shed some light on this?

Many thanks,

Dave

PS Currently I just setup .cshrc to say /bin/bash and when that changes my .bashrc and .bash_profile are loaded.

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
       which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.

       The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/ksh93, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh,
       /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/ksh93, /usr/bin/pfcsh,
       /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh, and /usr/sfw/bin/zsh. /etc/shells overrides the default list.

       Invalid shells in /etc/shells could cause unexpected behavior, such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1).

FILES

       /etc/shells    list of shells on system

SEE ALSO

       vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)

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