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charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfAitJ+L97PctZj8lD6HFq8QKZph0nqZ+El43f7az35Blvk9sg11zXNajcIZc3hlzgqrxnRYEakWSUweRGa16xnF0rIAj9nus+3zkaFQtwsGJfGfjMH1E 9p9nTtLA5qd+4jxxB/RZ+qFLrQbWCuahtlQn6fxNdXElNXlPTzziOiHl X-Seq: 47394 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-workers@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-workers-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-workers-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 17:50 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote: > > On 15 September 2020 at 17:39 Bart Schaefer wrote: > > You're going to need to log in with a different user name, or boot in > > single user mode. Alternatively, if you have access to the filesystem > > from elsewhere via a shared drive, you may be able to edit the > > /etc/passwd file to fix the shell assignment. > > There may be other ways using GUI clients, since the implication is > it's still possible to start utilities, and it looks like you're changing > settings from the command line. Another way: whatever desktop you're using probably has a way of running commands directly. For example, if it's the KDE Plasma desktop, typing Alt-Space should get you a command line window. Then type: konsole -e /bin/zsh There will no doubt be equivalents for other desktops. pws