changing shell

2005-12-11 Thread FreeBsdBeni
Hi, I'm trying to get my shell changed from the default csh to bash. I followed the instruction in the handbook, chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash beni and got the reply that the user information was updated : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/beni chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash beni chsh: user information

Re: changing shell

2005-12-11 Thread Vasile C
On Sunday 11 December 2005 22:07, FreeBsdBeni wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my shell changed from the default csh to bash. I followed the instruction in the handbook, chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash beni and got the reply that the user information was updated : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/beni chsh

Re: changing shell

2005-12-11 Thread FreeBsdBeni
On Sunday 11 December 2005 03:17, Vasile C wrote: On Sunday 11 December 2005 22:07, FreeBsdBeni wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my shell changed from the default csh to bash. I followed the instruction in the handbook, chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash beni and got the reply that the user

Re: changing shell

2005-12-11 Thread James Bailie
FreeBsdBeni wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/beni chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash beni chsh: user information updated [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/beni This should work if you are truly root, as the prompt suggests. If you are not, then you need to modify /etc/shells to include bash before invoking

Re: no root login after changing shell

2003-08-28 Thread m
What about the toor user? I think it has no shell associated. Hope that helps. bye. -- Hi, i wanted to change the shell for user root to bash. in the freebsd online handbook i found this command: ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no root login after changing shell

2003-08-28 Thread Todd Stephens
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 10:24 pm, m wrote: What about the toor user? I think it has no shell associated. Hope that helps. bye. Unless he has already changed toor's password (which a lot of people don't even know about) he won't be able to log in as toor. This is my newbie

Re: no root login after changing shell

2003-08-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
What about the toor user? I think it has no shell associated. Hope that helps. bye. -- Hi, i wanted to change the shell for user root to bash. in the freebsd online handbook i found this command: Don't set a password on the real root account or log in to

Re: no root login after changing shell

2003-08-27 Thread Markie
- Original Message - From: Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'thomas may' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:57 PM Subject: RE: no root login after changing shell i wanted to change the shell for user root to bash. in the freebsd online handbook

Re: no root login after changing shell

2003-08-27 Thread Mike Hogsett
i wanted to change the shell for user root to bash. in the freebsd online handbook i found this command: # echo /usr/local/bin/bash /etc/shells but what i didnt know at this moment, that i have to install bash before. so i logged of as user root and get now on login the

Re: no root login after changing shell

2003-08-27 Thread David Landgren
thomas may wrote: Hi, i wanted to change the shell for user root to bash. This is not a good idea. You don't want to use a shell on a partition other than / (e.g. /usr, /usr/local) for root. If those partitions, or shared libraries like libc, get trashed, you are in a world of pain. Much