How to change the default shell of IPA on RHEL 6?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
  • IPA

Issue

Need to change the default shell of IPA for clients. How to do it?

Resolution

  • Use the following commands to change the IPA shell:
# ipa config-mod --defaultshell=/bin/bash
  • In this example you will change IPA shell to _bash_.

There is a description about that parameter in our documentation:

 Default shell  --defaultshell  Sets the default shell to use for users. The default value is /bin/sh.

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