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From: Murali Suriar <m.suriar@gmail.com>
Subject:  Re: Changing default remote shell under Cygwin
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 02:45:33 +0000 (UTC)
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Igor Peshansky <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes:

> 
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Murali Suriar wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering what configuration file I need to edit in order to make
> > ZSH to default shell on login?
> 
> Change the user's shell in /etc/passwd.  Make sure you use something that
> keeps the LF line endings (i.e., not notepad).
> HTH,

It does indeed. Thanks very much. On a related note, on a university system 
where chsh and ypchsh are disabled, I take it there's no way for me to change 
my login shell to ZSH? I'd have to start a BASH instance and drop into ZSH 
from there?

Thanks,

Murali.


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