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From: todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: login shell == ../vi
Message-ID: <629@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 04:10:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 26 04:10:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 07:03:48 EDT
References: <10249@cgl.ucsf.EDU> <196@picuxa.UUCP>
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In article <196@picuxa.UUCP> tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Thomas Gillespie) writes:
>In article <10249@cgl.ucsf.EDU>, han@cgl.ucsf.edu (Charles S. Han%Langridge) writes:
>>is there any (non-super user) way to change your login shell back to
>>anything functional?
>Not really; you must have root/su/sysadmin privileges to write to the
>password file.

There is a command called 'chsh' (change shell) in BSD versions of UNIX
that allows non-super users to change their login shell to either
/bin/csh or /bin/sh (and perhaps /usr/new/csh).  However, some system
administrators deny access to chsh to prevent users from accidentally
changing their login shell (if you don't tell chsh what you want, it
changes the login shell to /bin/sh).  If you are on a BSD system, check
and see if you have /usr/ucb/chsh on it....todd

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