chsh -s /bin/zsh

is all you need to change your own shell. No root or sudo required, unless you want to change someone else's.

Needless to say, everyone should change to zsh.

I'm not very good at it. What shall I do exactly, in order to login and have a "Solid Aqua dark blue" desktop only, avoiding the "Aurora" ?
Many thanks for answering me.

pvaldoni (Rome) p.valdoni@tin.it

chsh -s /bin/zsh

is all you need to change your own shell. No root or sudo required, unless you want to change someone else's.

Needless to say, everyone should change to zsh.

Wow, chpass(1) has been patched to update Open Directory in Leopard?!

I'm pretty sure it didn't affect NetInfo in Tiger and earlier... did it?

Anyway, one can of course also manually go and edit the directory using dscl(1). Something like:

dscl . -change /Users/<username> UserShell <old_shell> <new_shell>

It has been like that at least since 10.3.

I never gave it much thought, but you are right, that is quite impressive.

You could just change the login shell in Terminal's preferences and leave the default alone.