In order to change shell for a particular user of Unix/Linux system without editing /etc/passwd file manually just use command:

chsh -s /path/to/shell username

for example, to change shell to ‘sh’ from ‘bash’ for user ‘viper’, use command:

chsh -s /bin/sh viper

 

5 Comments

 

  1. August 9, 2008  1:27 pm by Wouter den Dulk Reply

    Hi,

    One can also sudo vim /etc/passwd

    and change the shell column from sh to bash

    or anything else and then :wq

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  4. March 30, 2012  7:11 pm by fruit mocking party Reply

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  5. February 11, 2013  6:45 pm by DrupalFever Reply

    Thanks for the helpful tip. I just used your trick when changing the shell file on a user in a Client's web server.

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