Shell – How to Change from csh to bash as Default Shell

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I have csh as my default shell, as shown by echo $SHELL. I want to switch to bash as my default shell. I tried the following approaches to no avail:

With chsh I get:

chsh: can only change local entries; use ypchsh instead.

With ypchsh I get:

ypchsh: yppasswdd not running on NIS master host ("dcsun2").

I only have .chsrc in my home directory and I cannot find any .profile files in /etc. How can I change my default shell to bash?

Best Answer

Make sure you've got bash installed.
Learn the location of bash:
```
which bash
```
or
```
whereis bash
```
Below, I'll assume the location is /bin/bash.

a) If you have administrative rights, just run as root:
```
usermod -s /bin/bash YOUR_USERNAME
```
(replacing YOUR_USERNAME with your user name).

b) If you don't have adm. rights, you can still just run bash --login at login, by putting the below line at the end of your .cshrc or .profile (in your home directory) :
```
setenv SHELL /bin/bash
exec /bin/bash --login
```

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