CubaMark

Change Leopard's Login Shell

Kids, do not try this at home!


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wonderings

What exactly is the Login shell? I looked at the link, but the compuspeak is beyond me and I dont understand exactly what this is.

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CubaMark

Which is exactly why people like you (and me!) should go nowhere near this...


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20DDan

Seriously... I'm curious... can anyone explain in non-technical terms what a shell is? n what this is about. Please....

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Atroz

These are the real account information that applies to the underlying Unix operating system. UIDs, groups, shells, etc, are all standard fare for Unix/Linux systems.

BTW, don't play with these settings unless it's on a secondary account or you really know what you are doing. You could lock yourself out of your machine.

The Shell, is the command line interface (CLI), "Terminal" in Mac speak. When you are in the CLI, you are actually using a program called a "shell". By default, on OS X it is the "bash" shell (also available on other systems including Linux, Solaris, etc). There are other shells such as the original "sh", the very popular "csh", "zsh", etc. The shell is actually very powerful, it has a scripting language, variables, debugging tools, lots of built in commands, etc.

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cap10subtext

I only noticed for the first time yesterday that NetInfoManager doesn't exist in Leopard. Easy enough to enable root with one line of code, but I thought I was going crazy not being able to find it.

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chas_m

This is now handled within the "Directory Utility."

Still, I strongly advise anyone reading this NOT to enable root unless ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. Oh the trouble you could cause yourself!

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gordguide

The default shell in OSX was tcsh; that changed to bash in 10.3x. If you upgraded from an earlier OS to 10.3 (and then to 10.4, etc), you will still have tcsh as the default; it has to be changed to bash manually (ie via the Terminal).

New, full installs of 10.3x or later have bash as the default, with tcsh and zsh included, should you wish to switch to either one.

cap10subtext

Yes, good advice. You can totally ravage your poor computer with one line of code.

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Atroz

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I do have root on mine, but don't find I use it very often.

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