[arch-general] Why chsh behaviour differs from specified in manpage?

[XeCycle]

"Dmitry S. Kravtsov" <idkravitz at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Today I messed around with zsh and login shells and found a strange thing -
> when I try to change my own login shell - chsh forbids me to do this:
>
> $ chsh -s /bin/bash
> You may not change the shell for 'kravitz'.
> $ whoami
> kravitz
>
> So it states, that I can't change login shell for current user, but lets
> look at manpage:
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        The chsh command changes the user login shell. This determines the
> name of the users initial login command. A normal
>        user may only change the login shell for her own account; the
> superuser may change the login shell for any account.

Have you messed with PAM?  Sounds like you blocked yourself in
/etc/pam.d/chsh.

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