changing shells

[moonbaby]

I changed shells for a user from bash to tcsh using this command... chsh user -s /bin/tcsh but when logging on via ssh under that user i get a "Illegal variable name" error...i type, echo $shell and it says, /bin/tcsh. I am curious what that Illegal variable name could be.

All i did was change shells, never had this problem before. Anyone have a clue what is causing this? Thanks.

[atreyu]

What version of Linux are you using?

Does the entry for the user in /etc/passwd look right (particularly the last field)?

Does logging in locally (in a virtual term, etc.) cause the same error?

Anything in /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure?

Does ssh -v tell you any more?

No idea if it matters in the case, but is SELinux enabled? (getenforce)

[moonbaby]

What version of Linux are you using?

Does the entry for the user in /etc/passwd look right (particularly the last field)?

Does logging in locally (in a virtual term, etc.) cause the same error?

Anything in /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure?

Does ssh -v tell you any more?

No idea if it matters in the case, but is SELinux enabled? (getenforce)

I use cpanel and their latest version messed things up so i had to delete the /etc/profile.d/localib.csh file and that solved the issue.

[atreyu]

ah, and so anyone with a csh/tcsh shell who logged in would source all /etc/profile.d/*.csh scripts, and that localib.csh script must have had a bad variable assignment in it. glad you figured it out.