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Re: how to change sheel on Athena 10?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Jun 2 19:40:21 2009

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To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, broder@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:07:15 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:39:48 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>


>Apparently the code is trying to find an Athena user named /bin/bash or
>something, failing, and falling back to the local version of chsh. I'm
>trying to figure out how wrong that is, but at the least, you ought to be
>able to run 'chsh' with no arguments.

Well, I do that, and it tells my my shell has been changed successfully, but
when I log out and back in I've got the same old shell (tcsh).

                                             Alex

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