[UCLA-LUG] Changing your login shell

[chris]

probably passwd -s.  if not, man passwd will give you the answer.

-chris

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Michael Daines wrote: 

> This is actually a UNIX questions, since linux (at least my version 
> at home) has the chsh command.
> 
> How do I change my login shell (this is for an account I have).  My 
> current default is ksh, but if I wanted to switch it to tcsh, how 
> would I go about that.  The linux reference material I have say to 
> use chsh, but that doesn't exist in the UNIX I am using.  If I just 
> copy the chsh program over to my bin file and run it, will that do 
> the trick, or do I need to modify or add a . file in my home 
> directory, or what?  I want to ask before I do anything, because a 
> mistake here could make it so that I cannot even log in.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> msd
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