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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Changing default remote shell under Cygwin
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On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Murali Suriar wrote:

> 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?

Not Cygwin-specific at all, but you can create a ~/.bash_profile that
contains the following one line:

exec -l /usr/bin/zsh

For more help, read the startup section of the bash manpage.
HTH,
	Igor
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