On Wednesday 25 Apr 2012 01:20:05 Dmitry S. Kravtsov wrote: > So this it's either a bug in chsh or in its documentation. Does anyone has > the same problem? It seems to be working OK for me. I'm asked for my password, and then the shell is changed in /etc/passwd. > By the way, is it a typo in manpage: "for her own account"? Who is "her"? > if we talk about user, there should be "his". But maybe I'm wrong, since > english is definitely not my native language. Some people like to use "her" instead of "him", but it's relatively rare. I think some do this as a philosophical statement of gender equality, but I expect there are other reasons too. Paul