Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 19:51:59 -0400 From: david mankins <dm@k12-nis-2.bbn.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login shell selection prompt Message-ID: <199904092352.TAA12362@k12-nis-2.bbn.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Apr 1999 04:51:40 %2B1000." <19990410045140.50124@welearn.com.au>
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 04:51:40 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> When booting in single-user mode, root is asked to select which shell to use at login. I'd like to get that prompt at login for a normal user. I don't want to load a shell and then have the user change it, because I'm trying to save a few bytes of memory when arriving to soothe a choking 386. Is it easy to set this up somewhere? A man page name would be enough. chsh will let the users choose which shell is listed for them in /etc/passwd (so they don't have to ask for it whenever they log in). if, ``arriving to soothe a choking 386'', you want to switch to the shell of *your* choice (instead of what the user is using), you might want to use ``exec shell-of-your-choice''. This command is an analogue of the exec system-call --- it overlays the current process with the new program. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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