FreeBSD6 Unleashed

Changing Your Shell

The default shell for the root user in FreeBSD is csh (actually tcsh). If you’re not running as root, however, you might have a different shell assigned. To see what shell you are currently running, type the following command, where foo is your login name and # is the command prompt:

# grep foo /etc/passwd

Don’t worry if you don’t know what this command line means. You’ll understand it and far more before you are done with this chapter. The command returns a line that looks something like the following:

foo:*:1001:1001::Foo Bar:/home/foo:/bin/csh

The line on your screen will probably be different from this one. For now, all you need to worry about is the last field (the one that reads /bin/csh in the example). This is your ...