Unavailability of Chsh / ability to change user shell

[Jerrad Pierce]

Igor said:
>Eh?  From "tcsh --help":
>-l              act as a login shell, must be the only option specified
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>"tcsh -l" works just fine.
Doh! indeed.

>How's this going to help?  rxvt doesn't look in /etc/passwd -- it runs
>/bin/sh by default.
It might be slightly more obvious that one needs to change something other
than /etc/passwd to specify the invoked shell (for terminals this is usally
-c)

Another stop-gap would be for the setup to let one select the default shell
(written into the batch file)

>Your user is missing in /etc/passwd.  Try "mkpasswd -u jpierce >>
>/etc/passwd".  Once you have a correct user entry, "passwd" should work.
>	Igor
Nope.

jpierce:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:14518:10545:jpierce,U-PLANT\jpierce,S-1-5-21-56
248481-1622700533-1695163583-4518:/cygdrive/h:/bin/tcsh

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