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10-12-2010

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SSH - please make my life easier

I know this is probably a really stupid question, with a really stupidly simple answer.

So I've got a Mac, and I have to do a bunch of work via SSH on a Solaris workstation owned by my university.

I've already got keys set up, and my ~/.ssh/config file set up as follows:

Code:

Host prime
  HostName address.of.that.workstation
  User myusername

And so all I have to do to SSH into the box is type "ssh prime". I've even got a separate window setting in Terminal.app with a different background color that's set to run that command on startup; I've set Terminal.app to open one of those windows in a second tab when I start it.

The only problem is, when I ssh into the box (or log into it physically, come to think of it) I get csh.

And I want bash. Not because of anything regarding scripts or anything - I am a complete noob - but because of the arrow keys. (If I have to use a command line argument, I'm OK with that; I mainly want to be able to invoke bash automatically when I open the aforementioned window setting. Right now, it's really annoying when I ssh in, then forget to start bash and end up with arrow-key control characters all over the screen.)

I've tried "chsh", but as I mentioned earlier, it's a Solaris box.
I've tried "passwd -e" and even, in a futile attempt, "usermod -s" but, as you can expect, nada. (Did I mention the workstation is owned by my university?)
I'd try contacting the sysadmin, but I don't even know for sure who that is, and I can guess how much good will come out of it.
I'd try editing my ~/.profile and ~/.login files, but both of them have huge comment blocks at the top that say "DO NOT PUT ANY COMMANDS IN THIS FILE THAT CHANGE THE SHELL THAT YOU RUN. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LOG ONTO A WORKSTATION." This scares me.

Any ideas?

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GNOME-SSH-ASKPASS(1)					      General Commands Manual					      GNOME-SSH-ASKPASS(1)

NAME

       gnome-ssh-askpass - prompts a user for a passphrase using GNOME

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-ssh-askpass

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-ssh-askpass  is  a GNOME-based passphrase dialog for use with OpenSSH.  It is intended to be called by the ssh-add(1) program and not
       invoked directly.  It allows ssh-add(1) to obtain a passphrase from a user, even if not connected to a terminal (assuming that an X display
       is  available).	This happens automatically in the case where ssh-add is invoked from one's ~/.xsession or as one of the GNOME startup pro-
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       In order to be called automatically by ssh-add, gnome-ssh-askpass should be installed as /usr/bin/ssh-askpass.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       The following environment variables are recognized:

       GNOME_SSH_ASKPASS_GRAB_SERVER
	      Causes gnome-ssh-askpass to grab the X server before asking for a passphrase.

       GNOME_SSH_ASKPASS_GRAB_POINTER
	      Causes gnome-ssh-askpass to grab the mouse pointer using gdk_pointer_grab() before asking for a passphrase.

       Regardless of whether either of these environment variables is set, gnome-ssh-askpass will grab the keyboard using gdk_keyboard_grab().

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  It was based on that
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