Easy: As root edit /etc/passwd using texteditor and modify Field No 6.
Fields are separated by colon (:)
Entry loks like
username:x:uid:gid:Comment:/home/username:/bin/bash
farzanj
You have to the root user to do so or you have to use sudo
Nathan Riley
ASKER
heh, tried that before and had some major issues after the edit, would like to do using usermod, I am logged in as root, but still getting the error: error bash: usermod: command not found