Hi,
Could you please verify that your *current* shell in listed in
/etc/shells? If not, could you please add it and try chsh once
more?
For historical reasons AFS users at CERN often have shells prepended
with /usr/local, ie /usr/local/bin/bash. This is changed on SLC5...
hth,
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, suvayu ali wrote:
Hi everyone,
I want to change my login shell on a SL 4.8 machine I don't have root
access to (atcanpc, its only accessible from lxplus). I have tried
`chsh -s `which bash`'. But that returns me the following error: chsh:
Your shell is not in /etc/shells,
Hi Jan,
2010/1/22 Jan van Eldik jan.van.el...@cern.ch:
Could you please verify that your *current* shell in listed in
/etc/shells? If not, could you please add it and try chsh once
more?
My current shell is zsh, and I want to change to bash. As you can see
both are listed there.
$ cat
That sounds strange...
As the chsh man page says, *chsh -l* lists the content of /etc/shells, so
your machine should have /bin/bash.
Have you tried to execute *chsh* , then insert your password and finally
type /bin/bash???
Have you checked what *which bash* returns??
Have you tried to execute
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:11:00PM -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
Hi everyone,
I want to change my login shell on a SL 4.8 machine I don't have root
access to (atcanpc, its only accessible from lxplus). I have tried
`chsh -s `which bash`'. But that returns me the following error: chsh:
Your shell
Hi Fernando and Steven,
2010/1/21 Steven Leikeim sleik...@ucalgary.ca:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:11:00PM -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
Hi everyone,
I want to change my login shell on a SL 4.8 machine I don't have root
access to (atcanpc, its only accessible from lxplus). I have tried
`chsh -s
suvayu ali fatkasuv...@gmail.com writes:
I have tried all those possibilities, everyone of them give me the
same error! I get the same error even if I provide no arguments. As
far as I understand this, if no arguments are provided chsh is
supposed to prompt me for a shell.
Maybe you are
2010/1/21 Brett Viren bvi...@minos.phy.bnl.gov:
suvayu ali fatkasuv...@gmail.com writes:
I have tried all those possibilities, everyone of them give me the
same error! I get the same error even if I provide no arguments. As
far as I understand this, if no arguments are provided chsh is
$ lchsh username
Password:
Changing shell for username.
Error initializing libuser: not executing with superuser privileges.
Have you tried running this command as root?
-Chris
2010/1/21 Chris Tooley ctoo...@uvic.ca:
$ lchsh username
Password:
Changing shell for username.
Error initializing libuser: not executing with superuser privileges.
Have you tried running this command as root?
If I could be root life would be so much easier. ;) As I mentioned in
the OP,
Hi everyone,
I want to change my login shell on a SL 4.8 machine I don't have root
access to (atcanpc, its only accessible from lxplus). I have tried
`chsh -s `which bash`'. But that returns me the following error: chsh:
Your shell is not in /etc/shells, shell change denied. However when I
do
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