Eskimo North

When a shell account is initially created on Eskimo North, it goes into a menu system.

Those wishing to login directly to a Unix shell can do so by doing the following:

1) From within the menu system type '!' which will escape the menu system into a Bourne shell.

2) From the Bourne Shell prompt type 'chsh' followed by a carriage return or [ENTER].

3) When prompted for the path of shell you want to use, enter one of the following:

/bin/sh Bourne Shell (used on old System V and System 7 Unix)
/bin/ksh Korn Shell (used on newer System V Unix)
/bin/bash Bash (used on Linux)
/bin/csh C Shell (used on older BSD Systems)
/bin/tcsh Total C Shell (used on newer BSD Systems)
/bin/zsh Z Shell (used by those who want to use it).

If for some reason you want to change your login so that it goes into the menu system again, then use 'chsh' again and specify /usr/local/esh as the shell.

If you change default shells, you can also get to the menu temporarily from a direct shell (without swapping defaults) with the command:



The usual menu-exiting command "ty" ("T"erminate, "Y"es) will then return you to the shell you called it from.

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Be aware thought that if invoked this way, it will alter your tty settings and not restore them upon exit. Depending upon whether your tty settings differ significantly from it's default, this may or may not be significant.

This procedure no longer works on the new shell.eskimo.com server. Here's what I get:

-esh-3.1$ ypchsh
Changing NIS account information for jmtt on eskimo.
Please enter password:

Changing login shell for jmtt on eskimo.
To accept the default, simply press return. To use the
system's default shell, type the word "none".
Login shell [/usr/local/esh]: /bin/bash
RPC: Authentication error
The login shell has not been changed on eskimo.

For now you'll need to login to the old shell server to change shells; it is the NIS master at present. At some point when I'm ready to turn down the old SunOS box, and that's going to require finding something that will emulate SunOS to run some applications I do not have source for; then one of the new shell servers will be made into the NIS master. There is a protocol that would allow changing the password from an NIS slave but it has security issues and is disabled for that reason.