> > * 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.
Reading further on in the docs, to set the shell independently for different users, in /etc/nsswitch.conf set db_shell = desc Then in an administrative shell, run e.g. net user andrew /comment:'<cygwin shell="/bin/fish"/>' Then restart sshd. Annoying that it has to be done administratively, but anyway it works. Again 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
