Changing Default Shells on ada.rice.edu

29-Jan-2007

Introduction

All accounts on ada.rice.edu are configured with the Bash shell (/bin/bash), otherwise known as the "GNU Bourne-Again Shell", as the default shell. If you want to change your shell to the "T Shell" (/bin/tcsh), you will need to use the chsh command as described below.

Changing Shells

To change your default shell, use the chsh command. This command will prompt you for your Ada password first. Then it will prompt you for the path to the shell that you want to use. The path to Bash is /bin/bash. The path to tcsh is /bin/tcsh.
Your new shell will take effect the next time you login.


adauser@adahost:~> chsh
Changing login shell for adauser.
Password:
Enter the new value, or press return for the default.
        Login Shell [/bin/tcsh]: /bin/bash		
Shell changed.