Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:41:18 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: kynn AT panix DOT com cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: login shell in passwd ignored In-Reply-To: <200411181903.iAIJ3fU29511@panix3.panix.com> Message-ID: References: <200411181903 DOT iAIJ3fU29511 AT panix3 DOT panix DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, kynn wrote: > I have changed the login shell info for my username in /etc/passwd > from /bin/bash to /usr/bin/zsh, and when I login, the SHELL > environment variable reflects this change, but even after restarting > the machine, my login shell is still /bin/bash. > > What must I do to have /usr/bin/zsh be the default shell? What exactly do you mean by "login"? If you connect to your machine remotely via inetd or sshd, the /etc/passwd entry should be honored. If you mean "clicking on the Cygwin icon", that launches the batch file /Cygwin.bat, which has the shell (bash) hard-coded in it. If you want it to launch a different shell, simply edit the batch file. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/