Thank you so much Hanspeter. That was exactly what I needed to do. It was set 
to /sw/bin/bash before. I set it to /bin/bash and I can now use the terminal.app

On Jul 22, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:

> 
> On Thu, July 22, 2010 4:27 pm, Richard Miles wrote:
>> I have been trying to put my terminal shell back to /bin/bash rather then
>> /sw/bin/bash.
>> I removed /sw/bin/bash from etc/shells. Now Terminal.app says You are not
>> authorized to run this application.
>> The administrator has set your shell to an illegal value.
>> 
>> I think there was something I did when I was using /sw/bin/bash . Maybe
>> some system setting somewhere. I can not figure it out. Please help me to
>> set Terminal.app shell back to /bin/shell.
> 
> System Preferences > Accounts > ctrl-click your account > Advanced
> Options, and enter the login shell you want (/bin/bash is the default,
> there's no /bin/shell)
> 
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