change to chs

[Francois Bariselle_3]

I want change the profile of my user to use the c-shell by default.
How I can to this ?

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

The usual way is to modify the last field in /etc/passwd so that it will contain /usr/bin/csh

Whatever you do, make sure you NEVER do this to the root user. Your system will likely be unbootable if you do that for root.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Francois,

Two ways:

1) Edit the last field in the user's /etc/passwd entry to read /usr/bin/csh

2) Edit the user's .profile (if you leave the passwd file alone & it's sh or ksh) & have it run /usr/bin/csh as the last command in the file.

Rgds,
Jeff

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

You can edit your account in '/etc/passwd' and specify '/usr/bin/csh' for the startup shell (field-7 colon-delimited), or you can do:

# chsh /usr/bin/csh

BTW, whatever you do, *never* change root's shell from '/sbin/sh'. If you do, you will end up with an unbootable system!

Regards!

...JRF...

[Paul Sperry]

edit the /etc/passwd file
The last field is the users shell
change it to /usr/bin/csh

Note: use vipw to edit the file