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Adam Matan
Asked: 2014-01-13 05:18:27 +0800 CST

Can't change shell in EC2 server

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I am trying to change the default shell on Ubuntu server 13.10 on Amazon's AWS (AMI ami-ad184ac4).

I've tried:

~$ chsh -s /bin/zsh

But got:

Password: 
chsh: PAM: Authentication failure

I've tried obvious passwords (e.g. ubuntu) but always got the same error message - chsh: PAM: Authentication failure.

Any idea why can't I change the default shell?

command-line

1 Answers

  1. Oddly enough, using sudo with the username was the answer:

    $ sudo chsh ubuntu -s /bin/zsh
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