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Subject: Re: root zsh to bash
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:47:15 -0400
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Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> mikadoZero <mikadozero@yandex.com> writes:
>
>> I am trying to switch the root user from zsh to bash.
>>
>> The relevant part of my system configuration is:
>>
>>   (users (cons (user-account
>> 	  (name "guix")
>> 	  (group "users")
>> 	  (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev" "audio"))
>> 	  (home-directory "/home/guix"))
>> 	       %base-user-accounts))
> ...
> I suppose you can just use chsh to change the root user=E2=80=99s default=
 shell.

Thank you for the suggestion.

chsh did not work for me:
`chsh -s /run/current-system/profile/bin/bash`=20
chsh: PAM: Authentication failure

This worked for me:

add to .bash_profile:
export VISUAL=3D"emacs"

`vipw`

Change roots shell to:
/run/current-system/profile/bin/bash