Change default SSH shell?

furom

Hi,

when I ssh to my box I get a tcsh as user, and sh as root. Can I redefine this somehow? I tried to change this in /etc/passwd, but didn't do anything. Would such change impact on functionality or just a matter of taste?

Thanks

jimp

While you can't change the default without affecting things like the menu, you can have ssh start whatever you want. There are not a lot of alternatives available, though. But there is bash which you can install via pkg install bash.

Then SSH in with:

$ ssh root@x.x.x.x -t bash

Be aware if you try to use bash -l it will end up going right into the menu if you use root or admin. As a regular non-root user that should be OK.

Alternately, consider either having it run your preferred shell at the end of the tcsh .tcshrc or even patching the menu file (/etc/rc.initial) to run it directly for option 8.

furom

@jimp said in Change default SSH shell?:

While you can't change the default without affecting things like the menu, you can have ssh start whatever you want. There are not a lot of alternatives available, though. But there is bash which you can install via pkg install bash.

Then SSH in with:
$ ssh root@x.x.x.x -t bash
Be aware if you try to use bash -l it will end up going right into the menu if you use root or admin. As a regular non-root user that should be OK.

Alternately, consider either having it run your preferred shell at the end of the tcsh .tcshrc or even patching the menu file (/etc/rc.initial) to run it directly for option 8.

Thanks! Well, there were a few options, and I think loading it from .tcshrc sounds like the best option, least intrusive :) I'll give it a go!