How to change shell in Fedora

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 21:35:11 +0000

If your search engine take you to this page, chances are you get used to use chsh to change user’s shell. On Fedora (28 at least), chsh is not available by default. You can install util-linux-user according to this post to get the chsh command.

However, there is another alternative which I didn’t even think of - use usermod command.

Here’s how I did it to change to zsh shell:

$ sudo usermod -s /usr/bin/zsh kenno
$ getent passwd kenno
kenno:x:1000:1000:Oh Kenno:/home/kenno:/usr/bin/zsh

Just log out and log back in. That’s it.

Chsh on Kenno's Open Note

How to change shell in Fedora