chsh always asking a password , and get `PAM: Authentication failure`

kernel_kate

Today I tried to switch to another shell. First I tried fish, and used chsh -s fish to change fish to default. After some time I found it cannot use ~/.bashrc (&& needs to be replaced by and). Because I prefer to reusing ~/.bashrc , I found zsh which seems an easier one and followed this documentation to switch to zsh . While I was running sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)" ,...

Originally asked by Mithril on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Thanks to this question on Server Fault , I worked around this by: Replacing auth required pam_shells.so with auth sufficient pam_shells.so in /etc/pam.d/chsh . Then it doesn't ask for a password anymore. But I think it better to restore chsh settings after switching the shell.

Full answer by Mithril: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/812426 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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