Kurinchi Blogger Scribbles ... » default shell http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com On Open Source Technologies Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:14:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Linux: How to set the default shell? http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com/2009/06/linux-how-to-set-the-default-shell.html http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com/2009/06/linux-how-to-set-the-default-shell.html#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:16:05 +0000 kurinchilamp http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com/?p=455 How to set the default shell?

If you want to set a shell as a the default for all users you can set the SHELL variable

$ sudo vi ~/.bashrc

export SHELL=/bin/bash

To change the default shell for a specific user you can either use the following command
$ usermod -s /path/to/shell user_a

or, set the shell in the /etc/passwd file by changing the last column which represents the default shell for that user

user_a:x:1001:1001::/home/user_a:/bin/sh

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