switching to new user limits console capabilities

Question

I'm creating a new user:

groupadd sybase
useradd -g sybase -d /opt/sybase sybase
passwd sybase
chown sybase:sybase /opt/sybase
chown sybase:sybase /var/sybase

then switch to this user:

su - sybase

than understand that the console-behavior is changed, tab is not working at all -for auto-completing, for example.

What would be the solution for this issue?

Answer 1

auto-complete (and history) is part of the bash shell. You can change to the bash shell for that user with.

sudo chsh -s /bin/bash $USER

Or for any other shell you like: change the /bin/bash.

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From man useradd

s, --shell SHELL

The name of the user's login shell. The default is to leave this field blank, which causes the system to select the default login shell specified by the SHELL variable in /etc/default/useradd, or an empty string by default.

So you could have used:

useradd -g sybase -d /opt/sybase sybase -s /bin/bash

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more /etc/default/useradd

# Default values for useradd(8)
#
# The SHELL variable specifies the default login shell on your
# system.
# Similar to DHSELL in adduser. However, we use "sh" here because
# useradd is a low level utility and should be as general
# as possible
SHELL=/bin/sh