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Re: how to change sheel on Athena 10?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Tue Jun 2 19:55:45 2009

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:54:42 -0700
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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Alex T Prengel wrote:
>> 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
>   

You'll have to wait for the next Hesiod DCM, but then it should change
immediately.

- Evan

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