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Re: how to change sheel on Athena 10?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Tue Jun 2 19:08:11 2009
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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:07:50 -0700
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Hmm...I think you're losing because of the arguments; chsh is looking up
"-s" in Moira and concluding that it's not a valid user.
To fix things for now, try just running chsh with no arguments. And
please file a bug on Trac so we don't forget to fix it :)
- Evan
Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Am I doing something wrong or missing a step or is something broken?
> I'm trying to change my shell (from csh to bash) on a cluster machine
> by doing:
>
> chsh -s /bin/bash
>
> and I get
>
> chsh.debathena-orig: alexp not found in /etc/passwd
>
> after entering my password.
>
> Alex
>
