Unix Third Edition: Visual Quickstart Guide

Changing Your Shell with chsh

If you decide that you want to change your shell, you probably can, depending on how your system administrator has set things up. As Code Listing 3.5 shows, you would do so using chsh. We usually change to bash.

Code Listing 3.5. You must remember the path to the shell to change shells on this system. Additionally, the password check helps ensure that only the account owner changes the shell.

[ejr@hobbes ejr]$ cat /etc/shells /bin/bash /bin/sh /bin/tcsh /bin/csh /bin/zsh [ejr@hobbes ejr]$ chsh Changing shell for ejr. Password: New shell [/bin/bash]: /bin/zsh Shell changed. ejr@hobbes ~ $ ejr@hobbes ~ $ su - ejr Password: ejr@hobbes ~ $

To change your shell with chsh:

1.	cat /etc/shells At the shell prompt, list ...