changing the default log in shell

[Stephen Hilton]

On Fri, 23 May 2003 21:04:33 +0900
William Scully <bill at scully.biz> wrote:

> When I installed 4.7, I chose bash as the default log in shell. I have come
> to prefer tcsh and would like to make that the default. What is the best
> way to go about that? Of course, I can switch shells on the fly, but I
> want to avoid that extra step of cahnging from bash to tcsh, and instead
> log straight into tcsh from the log- in prompt.

Bill,

You can use 'vipw' to edit the users account and change the 
reference to the users shell at the end of the users entry.

Example:
Change from
myuser:xXxXxXxX:1002:1002::0:0:My User:/home/myuser:/bin/sh

To
myuser:xXxXxXxX:1002:1002::0:0:My User:/home/myuser:/bin/tcsh

After this change the next time you log in as "myuser" you 
will have the shell "tcsh".


Regards,

Stephen Hilton
nospam at hiltonbsd.com