Hw to Change the User's Shell in AlmaLinux

Introduction (30 seconds)

Hello everyone. Welcome to my channel! Today, I will show you how to change the user’s shell in AlmaLinux.

Changing the User’s Shell

To change the user’s shell, you can use the usermod command followed by the -s option. For example, to change “john_doe”’s shell to /bin/zsh, you would run:

But first, let’s check the current shell of “john_doe”:

getent passwd john_doe

The output should be similar to the following:

john_doe:x:1001:1001::/home/john_doe:/bin/bash

First we should also check if the zsh is installed:

ls /bin/zsh

If the shell is installed, you can proceed to change it.

But if it is not installed, you can install it using the following command:

sudo dnf install zsh

Now, let’s change the shell:

To change “john_doe”’s shell to /bin/zsh, you would run:

sudo usermod -s /bin/zsh john_doe

We should verify the change by checking the user’s details again:

getent passwd john_doe

The output should now show /bin/zsh as the shell:

john_doe:x:1001:1001::/home/john_doe:/bin/zsh

Conclusion (30 seconds)

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