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$ chsh -s /bin/bash
You may not change the shell for hafner.

I think letting the users change the login shell would be a good thing. May some admin like to enable that, please? Currently the login shell is set to /bin/sh , which is not the same as /bin/bash (e.g. when running screen after login, the command prompt is bogus).

Regards
Thomas

hafner:

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[slashfoo:slashfoo]$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 Sep 19 01:53 /bin/sh -> bash*

if you are referring to your .bash_profile not being loaded, try moving it to .profile as bash always behaves as sh when he is called as such. EVERYTHING else should be working as it does on bash.

I think he means a lot more than just that. For example, have you heard of psh (the perl shell)? Or how about those wanting to use csh?

Of course, one can simply type that command in bash, but it would probably be nicer to be able to change the std. shell for one's user account.

-gratemyl