Changing the Default Shell

The default shell for an account is the environment that user accesses in a local or SSH session. The default shell for a new installation is zsh.

You can change the default shell in Accounts > Users.

1. Click for the root user and click Edit.

   

2. Choose the desired shell from the Shell dropdown list and click SAVE. Shell options are:

   Shell	Description
   csh	C shell for UNIX system interactions.
   sh	Bourne shell
   tcsh	Enhanced C shell that includes editing and name completion.
   bash	Bourne Again shell for the GNU operating system.
   ksh93	Korn shell that incorporates features from both csh and sh.
   mksh	MirBSD Korn Shell
   rbash	Restricted bash
   rzsh	Restricted zsh
   scponly	scponly restricts the user’s SSH usage to only the scp and sftp commands.
   zsh	Z shell
   git-shell	restricted git shell
   nologin	Use when creating a system account or to create a user account that can authenticate with shares but which cannot log in to the TrueNAS system using ssh.