making bash as default shell 1

[hok1man]

Hi guys,

I have put in my ~/.profile

bash.
and I have put
. ~/.bashrc

but still my default shell is csh, i know it's from the root. and my ~/.bashrc is still empty.

any idea how to make bash as default?

thanks guys

 

[feherke]

Hi

any idea how to make bash as default?

The user account informations are stored in [tt]/etc/passwd[/tt]. Probably [tt]csh[/tt] is also specified. Read [tt]man 5 passwd[/tt].

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[AnotherAlan]

Modify the user to have bash as the shell.

usermod -s /usr/bin/bash <username>

 

[hok1man]

as I dont think I have privilledge to do that..
can I use somewhere in .profile?

I tried it some way but doesn't work..
can you guys shed some light about this?

 

[p5wizard]

If your shell is csh, .profile isn't used if I'm not mistaken... See if you have a [tt]~/.login[/tt] file or a [tt]~/.cshrc[/tt] where you can invoke [tt]bash[/tt] from. But it won't be the same because I don't think any [tt]~/.bashrc[/tt] file will be read. See if invoking [tt]bash -i[/tt] from [tt]~/.login[/tt] or [tt]~/.cshrc[/tt] helps in this case.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[AnotherAlan]

Can you not just ask the sys admin to do this for you?
It's not a big ask.
Alternatively live with it and type bash at every logon.

 

[DrD123]

Hi hok1man,

Try adding bash as the very last line in the .profile Save the file and dot it in and see what happens.

Good Luck
DrD

 

[Annihilannic]

Some operating systems have a chsh command which allows users to select a different shell. The choice is normally restricted to the list of shells in /etc/shells.

Annihilannic.

 

[SamBones]

Don't just put [tt]bash[/tt] as the last line in your [tt].login[/tt]. It would be cleaner to add this...

exec /bin/bash --login

Put that as the only line in your [tt].login[/tt] file and then set up the proper [tt].profile[/tt] and [tt].bashrc[/tt] files for bash.

The [tt]exec[/tt] replaces the [tt]csh[/tt] process with [tt]bash[/tt], so your bash session doesn't have a csh parent session. A little cleaner IMHO, and you don't have to log out twice.

The best way is to get it changed in [tt]/etc/passwd[/tt].

 

[hok1man]

Thanks guys,

I figured it out...
I need to put in .login this


if ( -f /usr/bin/bash ) exec /usr/bin/bash --login


But I got another question customizing alias in another thread please help me guys

 

[ZaSter]

Take a star, too, hok1man, for sharing your solution which was just handy for me.