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RE: Unavailability of Chsh / ability to change user shell


On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jerrad Pierce wrote:

> Igor said:
>
> >How's this going to help?  rxvt doesn't look in /etc/passwd -- it runs
> >/bin/sh by default.
>
> It might be slightly more obvious that one needs to change something
> other than /etc/passwd to specify the invoked shell (for terminals this
> is usally -c)

For rxvt it's "-e", and I don't see how it's more obvious than changing an
explicit invocation of bash...

> Another stop-gap would be for the setup to let one select the default
> shell (written into the batch file)

Well, a chsh program can do exactly that, right?

> >Your user is missing in /etc/passwd.  Try "mkpasswd -u jpierce >>
> >/etc/passwd".  Once you have a correct user entry, "passwd" should work.
> >	Igor
>
> Nope.
>
> jpierce:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:14518:10545:jpierce,U-PLANT\jpierce,S-1-5-21-56248481-1622700533-1695163583-4518:/cygdrive/h:/bin/tcsh

Okay, I just read DaveK's reply.  I don't do much with domain users, so I
missed that.  Pierre or Corinna, care to comment?
	Igor
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