Can anyone tell me how to set the default shell in AIX. I have the
..profile file in which I have the
line 'export SHELL=/usr/bin/bash'. But this doesn't make bash as my
default shell.

smiletolead <developeratca@gmail.com> wrote:
s> Can anyone tell me how to set the default shell in AIX. I have the
s> .profile file in which I have the
s> line 'export SHELL=/usr/bin/bash'. But this doesn't make bash as my
s> default shell.
s>

Either done by setting the "Initial PROGRAM" to that shell in 'smitty mkuser'
on a user-by-user basis, or edit the '/usr/lib/security/mkuser.default' file.

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bela@bluedog.cc.emory.edu wrote:
> smiletolead <developeratca@gmail.com> wrote:
> s> Can anyone tell me how to set the default shell in AIX. I have the
> s> .profile file in which I have the
> s> line 'export SHELL=/usr/bin/bash'. But this doesn't make bash as my
> s> default shell.
> s>
>
> Either done by setting the "Initial PROGRAM" to that shell in 'smitty mkuser'
> on a user-by-user basis, or edit the '/usr/lib/security/mkuser.default' file.

"chsh" should do the trick.

Also you can do it by manually editing /etc/passwd
May be it is a wrong way, but I didn't have problems so far.
And smitty parses this correctly.
Some how I couldn't do that through smitty itself.

smitty chuser will allow you to change it