Default shell is always bash on OSX about extraterm HOT 6 CLOSED

From a little bit of googling I see that Mac OS X doesn't store the user's shell in /etc/passwd (which is what Extraterm is reading). It uses Open Directory.

https://superuser.com/questions/191330/users-in-etc-passwd-on-mac-os-x

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Thanks a lot! Can't wait for the next release. Wish I had time to build it myself.

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checking /etc/passwd won't work for networked linux machines either. you'll need to look through the administrative database using getent passwd

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if anyone is looking for a patch for this issue, manually get your user entry from wherever it is stored. userid and groupid are the tricky parts, but you'll need the whole line seperated by colons. make sure the end of that line is the shell you want to use. Then add it to /etc/passwd with root priv.
sudo nano /etc/passwd

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@yrizk Do you by any chance know of a general Linux command or call which fetches a user's shell regardless of how it is set up in the "back end"?

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Nope I don't know of such a thing . I would set up an or on both getent and passwd

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