💾 Archived View for jan.bio › bash › changing-the-default-shell.gmi captured on 2022-06-11 at 22:00:20. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
⬅️ Previous capture (2020-10-31)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
On FreeBSD the default shell is tcsh. Since I grew up with bash, that's what I prefer. To check the current shell, use
echo $0
List available shells with
cat /etc/shells
To change the current shell, use
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash [USERNAME]
A user can change it's own shell. If you want to change another users shell, you have to use sudo.