Re: how to make sshd start a shell other than bash when I log in?

[Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>]

* Andrew Schulman (Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:22:38 -0400)
> 
> My regular shell is fish. To make local terminals run fish instead of bash when
> I start them, I set
> 
> SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
> 
> in my desktop environment. This works fine: I start MinTTY, and fish starts.
> 
> But when I log into that same host by sshd, bash starts, not fish (since sshd
> doesn't have access to my desktop environment variables). How can I configure
> either my ssh client or the ssh server to start fish instead of bash?

I use db_shell in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Thorsten


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