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How do I get out of shell mode?
Exiting the shell
- To leave the shell temporarily and switch to TSO/E command mode: Press the TSO function key.
- To exit the shell when a foreground process has completed: Type exit or .
- To exit the shell when a background job is running: Press the SubCmd function key and then enter the QUIT subcommand.
How do I change my shell user?
Now let’s discuss three different ways to change Linux user shell.
- usermod Utility. usermod is a utility for modifying a user’s account details, stored in the /etc/passwd file and the -s or –shell option is used to change the user’s login shell.
- chsh Utility.
- Change User Shell in /etc/passwd File.
How do I get out of UEFI interactive shell?
Press CTRL + Q to exit the editor.
How do I skip the UEFI interactive shell?
press Ctrl + s and Enter to save and Ctrl + q to quit. Then restart VM. Alternatively, you can always use these 2 lines to exit shell and boot OS.
How to switch to different user inside a shell script?
The better approach is to use sudo. If you want to lock it down a bit more, you can specify a script that the user is allowed to execute. The line in /etc/sudoers might look like: Note in this last example, I think that USER2 would need to have an actual shell configured in /etc/passwd (i.e. NOT /bin/false ).
When does Bash not have the prompt set?
When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists. Not having your prompt set can occur in two different contexts then, login shells and non-login shells.
Why is bash-4.2 not displayed on root?
For root, still bash-4.2 is displayed. Copy the ~/.bashrc file to /root and it should work. I don’t know if your PS2 setting is on purpose, but FYI PS2 is the secondary prompt i.e. what your prompt will look like when you break your command in two or more lines.
How to run bash as a non-interactive shell?
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the –login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order […]