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Re: help with installing and correctly configuring zsh on an amd 64 box running gentoo stable

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: help with installing and correctly configuring zsh on an amd 64 box running gentoo stable
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 12:11:32 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 12:07 PM Michael Fothergill
<michael.fothergill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did it quite correctly because when I first ran chsh -s /bin/zsh  instead
> of running the start up script it asked for a password to
> be entered.

Are you worried about `chsh -s /bin/zsh` asking for your password?
That's the expected behavior of this command. Changing one's own login
shell requires password for all users except root.

Roman.

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- help with installing and correctly configuring zsh on an amd 64 box running gentoo stable
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