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I'm on the latest public beta of macOS Catalina and it's supposed to use zsh as the default shell and it even shows that it is pointing to zsh in the users settings but whenever I open a new terminal window it says:
and even when I run that specified command, it says: no changes made
What do I do?
Turns out the terminal app has its own settings for which shell to use.
I had to go to terminal preferences and change the option for Shells open with to Default login shell:
I've personally not used MacOS Catalina. It may or may not require you to run chsh altogether as the superuser (i.e. root).
Try executing chsh -l (lowercase L) to see a list of the shells available to you.
As changing a user's shell modifies /etc/passwd, you'll only be able to modify your own user's shell if you don't run chsh with sudo or as the root user.
Running chsh interactively (i.e. Without any arguments) should then prompt you for the pathname to the shell you'd like to set as your default shell.
Additional arguments that you could use include
-l / --list-shells which displays the list of available shells located in /etc/shells. This is useful to see the full pathname of the available shells that are accepted when designating a default shell with chsh.
-s shell / --shell shell , where shell is the path to the shell you wish to designate as your default shell.
New user accounts will be created with zsh as the default shell. Existing accounts will keep whatever settings they already have in place.
