login-shell

[Gergo Szakal]

Christian Hennig wrote:
Moin,

it's a simple question: How it ist possible to set the login shell. Or is a normal user allowed to edit his passwd row?

THx 4 help
chsh

If you are unfamiliar with vi, use this way:

> env EDITOR=ee chsh

and it will be opened in ee, of course you can put the command for your 
favourite editor there.

Alternatively, this is the fast way:

> chsh -s /bin/sh

Hope this helps.