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Everybody on the system has to use bash as login shell, because this allows us to put a standard configuration into each account. But don't worry, it's no problem to change the shell for all further operations after the login. Just put `setenv SHELL /bin/zsh` into your `~/.cshrc` file (if your shell is the tcsh) or in `~/.bashrc` (if your shell is already switched to bash) . Each terminal you start will then invoke `zsh`. Everybody on the system has to use bash as login shell, because this allows us to put a standard configuration into each account.

But don't worry, it's no problem to change the shell for all further operations after the login. Just put `export SHELL=/bin/zsh` into your `~/bashrc` or `setenv SHELL /bin/zsh` in your `~/.cshrc` (in case you where not yet switched to bash as default shell and still have it set to tcsh).

How can I have zsh as my default shell?

Everybody on the system has to use bash as login shell, because this allows us to put a standard configuration into each account.

But don't worry, it's no problem to change the shell for all further operations after the login. Just put export SHELL=/bin/zsh into your ~/bashrc or setenv SHELL /bin/zsh in your ~/.cshrc (in case you where not yet switched to bash as default shell and still have it set to tcsh).


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