February 24, 2003

Changing the Default Shell

I was trying to set the default shell the linux way on Mac OS X, but it failed horribly. No changed was made even after battling cryptic vi (urghh!) just to change the file that comes out in vi when you type sudo chsh username. I tried using the preference in terminal but then seeing that that will not use the login script, I'm afraid that it will miss out what its supposed to execute (some login scripts etc) when shelling out.

I found out this article on macosxhints. It basically states that you can either use the netinfo manager to change it or use the command 

niutil -createprop . /users/shortusername shell /bin/ bash

You must use the short user name. This will affect ALL shells and not just from terminal.

Posted by zoo at February 24, 2003 08:49 PM
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do NOT write that blindly..

since theres a whitespace in "/bin/ bash" you will not be able to use your shell again.. ofcourse you can fiddle around with run-command as i did to remove it.. but its annoying... do this instead:

niutil -createprop . /users/shortusername shell /bin/bash

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