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I've set up an Ubuntu image on EC2 and everything is working great. However, when I SSH onto the server my terminal prompt is always $ and several features I'm used to in the default Ubuntu terminal (tab auto-complete, for example) are not available. I've tried adding a .bashrc file to my home directory but that didn't help. How can I set this up?

Cheers,

Pete

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What shell echo $SHELL? – ooshro Feb 24 '11 at 22:55
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If your shell is not bash(echo $SHELL, show dash or other), change login shell to bash. First, run bash to check it:

/bin/bash

If bash work, change login shell(change LOGIN):

usermod -s /bin/bash LOGIN
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I hope you can help, as I have this same problem. If I ssh in with my secondary account (call it john), bash does not load. However, I have run usermod -s /bin/bash john from a su account, and also have run chsh /bin/bash from the john ssh account. When I look at the /etc/passwd it returns john:x:1001:1001::/home/john:/bin/bash. And when I ssh into the account, and type /bin/bash, it loads bash. However, for some reason, bash will not load automatically and I stuck with sh as the login shell. Any advice? – Matthew O'Riordan Nov 17 '11 at 16:55
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