[SlugLUG] I need some UCSC network-guru help

[Ignacio Solis]

Ok, so I skimmed over what you wrote so I don't really know all the details,
but here are some suggestions:

Have somebody else log in for you and su to your account, using your password,
which according to you works. Then do all changes from there.
or
SCP the files you need to change, most likely the login scripts. (I don't
really know if your login gets that far, depends on wheter the shell you chose
exists).

Also, for future reference. Be careful when you do that sort of thing, changing
shells on a remote system you don't control. Always leave a few terminals open
so you can _test_ things before loging out.

Having said that, why did /bin/bash not work?  I use zsh on all my systems and
the first thing I did on the soe machines was to change to zsh as my shell, no
problem (/bin/zsh).

Another alternative is to use the same shell they give you, then write a little
script that will change shells to the one you want. That way you won't have
these problems and you can select the shell based on the system you log into,
from, at, when, etc.

Nacho

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