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Re: Terminal type



On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 00:23, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:05, Russell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Where abouts in the linux boot-up sequence is the
> > terminal type (VT220?) defined that users interact
> > with after logging in?

--snip

> login reads your shell type from the pwd database (/etc/passwd) and
> begins that as your login shell (depending on the user logging in).

I should also have mentioned that 'chsh' is the command to change your
shell. Its so any user can change their shell (only root has write
access to /etc/passwd)

So if I was logged in as me, I could go

crispin@void:~$ chsh -s /bin/csh
Password: 

To change it to the C shell and

chsh -s /bin/bash

to change it back to bash

Crispin

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