> * Andrew Schulman (Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:22:38 -0400) > > > > My regular shell is fish. To make local terminals run fish instead of bash > > when > > I start them, I set > > > > SHELL=/usr/bin/fish > > > > in my desktop environment. This works fine: I start MinTTY, and fish starts. > > > > But when I log into that same host by sshd, bash starts, not fish (since > > sshd > > doesn't have access to my desktop environment variables). How can I > > configure > > either my ssh client or the ssh server to start fish instead of bash? > > I use db_shell in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Hm. So this is documented in "The db_shell setting" at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch. AFAICT, the only useful option there for my purposes is to set db_shell = /bin/fish After restarting sshd, this does make fish my login shell. Of course, it makes fish the login shell for every other user on the host too, but for single-user hosts such as mine, that works fine. Thanks. Andrew -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
