On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 00:23, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:05, Russell wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Where abouts in the linux boot-up sequence is the > > terminal type (VT220?) defined that users interact > > with after logging in?
--snip > login reads your shell type from the pwd database (/etc/passwd) and > begins that as your login shell (depending on the user logging in). I should also have mentioned that 'chsh' is the command to change your shell. Its so any user can change their shell (only root has write access to /etc/passwd) So if I was logged in as me, I could go crispin@void:~$ chsh -s /bin/csh Password: To change it to the C shell and chsh -s /bin/bash to change it back to bash Crispin
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