Changing user login shell to new bash release

[Khan Smith]

   Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 1:54 AM
   From: "Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev" <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
   To: "Khan Smith" <khansmith@mail.com>
   Cc: "help-bash" <help-bash@gnu.org>
   Subject: Re: Changing user login shell to new bash release
   look in /etc/passwd if the new path really gets used
   or anyway on #! scripts u may only want /bin/bash
   so
   mv /bin/bash{,.bak1} ; cp /usr/local/bin/bash /bin


   I never, ever change the root account's shell to be something other
   than the system default.
   If ever something goes wrong on my system that results in root's shell
   being unavailable for
   some reason, you've pretty much got a dead system at that point.


   On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 02:06 Khan Smith <khansmith@mail.com> wrote:
   >
   > I have system (Trisquel 9.0) with Bash Version 4.4.20. Have installed
   > Bash 5.1.8 using
   >
   > cd build
   > ../../../src/bash/bash-5.1.8/configure
   > make
   > sudo make install
   >
   > "which bash" is giving "/usr/local/bin/bash" and doing
   >
   > "/usr/local/bin/bash --version"
   >
   > gives
   >
   > GNU bash, version 5.1.8(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
   >
   > To change my login I will be doing
   >
   > 1. Add /usr/local/bin/bash to the file /etc/shells"
   > 2. Execute as myself the command "chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash"
   >
   > Would the procedure be correct to do?
   >