BASH as default shell 2

[sirrom]

How do I make BASH my default shell when logging in?
Also how can I tell which type of shell I am in?
I use SOLARIS 5.7

 

[grega]

To find out which shell you're using, you can use echo $SHELL or finger username where username is your login name.

A system administrator (root) can change your default shell using usermod -s /path/to/bash username

Don't change the root shell though as it can cause problems!

Greg.

 

[KenCunningham]

To find your shell type:

echo $SHELL at the command prompt. To change to the bash shell you will need to modify the entry in /etc/passwd to point to where your bash shell is installed. It would be as well to do this using usermod (see the man page, but usermod -s [pathtoshell] [loginname] should work) or admintool.