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 is not in /etc/shells, shell change denied. However when I
> do `chsh -l' I see /bin/bash in it.
> 
> Is there any solution to this? Thanks for any pointers.

Suvanyu,

My guess is that "which bash" is NOT returning /bin/bash. The command

	chsh -s /bin/bash

will do what you want.





Steven Leikeim

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