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Linux: neither chsh nor ypchsh is working, can I change my shell?

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I'm an old-school Unix guy, so my Linux skills are probably slightly out-dated. But this seems like it should be simple enough. On a Red Hat Linux system where I do not have root (it is administered by the company IT department), I want to be able to change my login shell. Running chsh gives me: So…

Error Output

$ chsh -s /bin/bash
chsh: can only change local entries; use ypchsh instead.

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Fix for: Linux: neither chsh nor ypchsh is working, can I change my shell?

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