how to get bash prompt on login

Question

When I connect to a remote machine using SSH, by default it is not on the bash prompt. To get the bash prompt by default on login I did as below by creating a .cshrc file in my home directory:

if ($?prompt) then
        setenv SHELL /bin/bash
        exec $SHELL -login
endif

It works well and I am getting the bash shell but I have another file as .bashrc in my home directory which gets executed when I run bash explicitly. I have done lot of customization in this file as per my requirements. Is it possible to get my .bashrc executed somehow from .cshrc or some other way?

For example I need to go connect to host B from host A, I do this:

From A -> ssh B

This brings up host B but not with a bash prompt. To get a bash prompt I created .cshrc as mentioned above but my above code snippet does not call my .bashrc script.

Answer 1

Have you tried running chsh on the remote system? It will change the default shell for your login account.

Answer 2

To set the login shell of a user you have to modify your /etc/passwd file, field number 7:

dino:x:1002:1002::/home/dino:/bin/bash