1 .TH CHSH 1 "1 Feb 1988" "Project Athena"
4 chsh \- change user login shell
17 This command changes the login shell associated with
19 (your own name by default).
20 While you can specify any program as a command interpreter, be
21 cautious about specifying a program that won't let you change your
22 login shell to something else (i.e., a noninteractive program like
27 displays the current shell, and prompts for the new one.
31 option, chsh will change the user's Windows shell instead of their
32 UNIX shell. The default behavior is to change the user's UNIX shell,
35 option is provided to explicitly select this behavior.
37 The actual change will take place overnight.
38 Users may only change their own information unless they are
39 Moira database administrators.
41 Emanuel 'Jay' Berkenbilt
44 Moira section of the Project Athena Technical Plan