Changing Your Default Shell on RTC

17-Aug-2007

Introduction

All accounts on rtc.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, load the pwdutils module and then execute the chsh command. This command will prompt you for your RTC login password first and then your LDAP password. Your LDAP password is the same as your login password. 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.


rtcuser@rtchost:~> module load pwdutils
rtcuser@rtchost:~> chsh
Changing login shell for rtcuser.
Password:
Enter login(LDAP) password:
Enter the new value, or press return for the default.
        Login Shell [/bin/tcsh]: /bin/bash		
Shell changed.