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