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# 1  
Old 03-10-2006
How to get bash to be the login shell?
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
# 2  
Old 03-10-2006
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
# 3  
Old 03-10-2006
Thanks! So put that in the .profile statement, without the "#" sign in front? Or is that needed?
# 4  
Old 03-10-2006
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.
# 5  
Old 03-10-2006
Oh, ok, I was hoping to have something to put in the profile so we could avoid running that command everytime. Smilie
# 6  
Old 03-10-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by amheck
Oh, ok, I was hoping to have something to put in the profile so we could avoid running that command everytime. Smilie
I'm not sure I understand you. You only have to run it once.
# 7  
Old 03-10-2006
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.
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