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Everytime I use my terminal, I am always put into the dash shell instead of bash. Is there any way to change this even just for my user only? Tried apt-alternatives but setting the default shell can't be found.

I am using Debian Jessie testing btw.

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marked as duplicate by Networker, John WH Smith, slm♦ Dec 24 '14 at 13:45

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I'm not Debian user, but all installed shells you can check in:

/etc/shells

to change shell, you can use

$ chsh -s /bin/bash

to check active shell use

echo $SHELL
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Try doing this :

$ chsh -s /bin/bash

You can also edit /etc/password and modify your line with /bin/bash @ the end of the line

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