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From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
Cc: Frank Gallacher <franxg@gmail.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: How do I make 5.8 the login shell???
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 02:29:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51DF7F6A-2449-4858-B26D-50479CEF45FF@larryv.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADjGqHvm6nKXt10WBwzQhsnoJpjx41yiXZLOTHZNvhTpOAKNVA@mail.gmail.com>

> On Jul 11, 2020, at 1:18 AM, TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> First, you **must** add /usr/local/bin/zsh to /etc/shells
> 
> You can do this by typing:
> 
> sudo pico /etc/shells
> 
> and then pasting the line in, and then saving the file (control+X and then
> control+Y)
> 
> Second, use `chsh -s` to change your login shell by entering this in
> Terminal:
> 
> chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh
> 
> You will be prompted to enter your Mac's login password.

As far as chpass/chsh is concerned, if you already have sudo access
you can just do

	sudo chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh $USER

without modifying /etc/shells. Granted, skipping that part might
have other implications that I'm unaware of.

vq

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-11  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-11  4:30 Frank Gallacher
2020-07-11  5:18 ` TJ Luoma
2020-07-11  6:29   ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2020-07-11 12:49     ` Frank Gallacher
2020-07-11 16:14 ` Ray Andrews

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