pfSense SSH Going straight to shell not getting pfSense console

trees spanning the land

Title says it, when I SSH into once of the pfSense boxes at one of our sites it's dropping straight to shell instead of going to the console and no I am not running a DEVEL version. Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?

gjaltemba

This happens when the user default shell is /bin/tcsh. Change the default to /etc/rc.initial to get console or run /etc/rc.initial manually.

trees spanning the land

@gjaltemba said in pfSense SSH Going straight to shell not getting pfSense console:

/etc/rc.initial

Of course. The solution was flex tape.

stephenw10

Yes, and that's the default for any user except root/admin.

Steve

trees spanning the land

Awesome, set it up so the rc.initial shell is now default for all existing and new users.

JInx-IT

@trees-spanning-the-land Could you send a link as to how to make this change? I can't find it in the GUI, so i'm assuming it's a file to edit?

KOM

Could you send a link as to how to make this change?

chsh -s /path/to/new/shell

so...

chsh -s /etc/rc.initial

or just run

chsh

and then change the Shell= line

JInx-IT

@KOM said in pfSense SSH Going straight to shell not getting pfSense console:

/etc/rc.initial

Thanks, but i get this error and the change doesn't stick.

chsh: /etc/rc.initial: non-standard shell

KOM

I have no idea if that's a valid shell. I was just showing you how to change it.

JInx-IT

Thanks. I can just run "/etc/rc.initial" and it fires up the shell. Strange. I'll test on another pfSense box.