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Re: how to make sshd start a shell other than bash when I log in?
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:27:04 +0200
- Subject: Re: how to make sshd start a shell other than bash when I log in?
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* 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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