On 2012-04-24 17:20, Dmitry S. Kravtsov wrote: > Today I messed around with zsh and login shells and found a strange thing - > when I try to change my own login shell - chsh forbids me to do this: > > $ chsh -s /bin/bash > You may not change the shell for 'kravitz'. > $ whoami > kravitz What is your current shell, as shown by `getent passwd kravitz`? chsh refuses the change if the current shell isn't in /etc/shells; this is noted (a bit unclearly) under "NOTES" in the manpage. > 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. Since the user's gender is unknown, both 'his' and 'her' are common usage, as well as 'his/her' and singular 'their'; this depends entirely on the writer. (See, for example, <http://english.stackexchange.com/q/48/3635>) -- Mantas M. <grawity@xxxxxxxxx>